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Posted by mc on 09/30/38 11:45
> I don't know but it seems to me that 0's and 1's are gonna stand the test
> of
> time better than oxide. They can be copied without degradation and oxide
> cannot.
Exactly.
(1) You can copy a digital medium losslessly.
(2) You can detect when a digital medium is starting to go out of spec,
before it deteriorates far enough for any of the bits to be unrecoverable.
In 10 years I predict a thriving industry in special adjustable CD-ROM
drives (probably self-adjusting) for reading degraded CDs. As long as a 1
and a 0 are distinguishable from each other, it really doesn't matter
whether they meet original specifications; you can build or adjust a drive
to read them perfectly in their degraded condition.
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