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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <>
Subject: Re: paper vs bits and bytes
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 12:45:02 -0800
References: <00d801c1aa16$0123a440$5872fea9@ron>, <3c593df0@news.alphalink.com.au>, <B880D91F.14934%talthane@hotmail.com>


On Fri, 01 Feb 2002 23:45:35 +0000, Grail <>
declaimed the following in soc.genealogy.computing:

>
> Is the point whether access is easy, or whether access is possible? If the
> latter, then CD-ROMs will surely win because the information rarely degrades
> quite so much as old paper does. Things like "video diaries", incidentally,
> provide a source beyond anything the 19th century had.
>
Careful... PRESSED (commercial) CD technology doesn't degrade
barring surface scratches, but home-burned CD-R(w) (using thermally
sensitive) dyes have not had been in existence long enough to verify
that the dyes don't degrade.

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