Archival storage

[Fred Cisin]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
> Has anyone suggested stone tablets yet?

Yes, but nobody remembers how to read Stonehenge.

> One snafu is that for it to work you would want the error correcting
> code to also be applied to the self-replicating software. Otherwise you
> could end up with a payload and no (easy, and the key here is easy)way
> to unlock it. Have to look into bootable CDs and see how that works...

self replicating data storage,...  DNA perhaps?