• To: "'Rick Marshall'" <rjm@z...>
• Subject: RE: Ted Nelson's "XML is Evil"
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:00:51 +0100
• Cc: "'Hunsberger, Peter'" <Peter.Hunsberger@S...>,"'Jonathan Robie'" <jonathan.robie@d...>,"'Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)'" <len.bullard@i...>,"'Eric van der Vlist'" <vdv@d...>,<xml-dev@l...>
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> and they have to be stored on a medium that is long term 
> accessible. i 
> have lots of stuff on floppy disks, tapes, etc that, while 
> archived, is 
> for intents and purposes inaccessible without a trip to the computer 
> museum. the format is only part of the issue.

Of course there are many interesting challenges at the level of storage
media. But I would dispute that your material is archived: an archive is not
the same as a pile of old stuff in the attic.

Michael Kay

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