Thoughts -> Re: classiccmp server

[ben franchuk]

Tom Jennings wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Ron Hudson wrote:
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>>I once was wondering if a backup software could be written that writes to
>>laser printer.
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> Not sure about toner longevity, but it's otherwise not a joke.
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>>Backups would be read in with a scanner..
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>>Hmm limit usable area to 8"x10" = 80 sq in.  600 dpi = 48mb per page.
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> A size dot addressable? Don't think so... reliably, a few K,
> or tens of K. Maybe 100K with a proprietary wacko scheme.
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> Better yet, good quality text, human and machine readable,
> redundant, copyable, etc etc ...
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> Density isn't the only metric...
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BYTE magizine  years ago had a printed media format at one time.
you may want to check on what they did. BYTE also had something
once on a very low cost write only media, I wonder what happend to
them.