Re: Is it archival?


Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Tue, 02 Feb 1999 16:10:09 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 2 Feb 1999 SCHRAMMR@WLSVAX.WVNET.EDU wrote:
>
> There is, by the way, a similar problem with books. Many books which were
> printed in mid century were printed on cheap paper and are gradually
> falling to pieces. It is awfully expensive to reprint them so no doubt
> many will be lost. And then there is magnetic media, but we won't get
> into that.

I should think Bob, that with the optical character reader and current
printing technology it would be relatively easy to at least get a working
-- or call it documentary -- copy of anything in print....

J.



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