Railfan Technology > Long-term data storage.

http://futurism.com/memory-that-lasts-forever-new-quartz-coin-can-store-360tb-of-data-for-14-billion-years/

Impressive. Will the hardware that reads it still be around in 14 billion years?

You can claim what you want, but as any reliability engineer knows, you have to put a test article through a life test to be sure.

Ray 

JayK Wrote:
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> Impressive. Will the hardware that reads it still
> be around in 14 billion years?

The problem is that the Earth apparently will have been gone for 9 billion years before then.
Their claim is invalid, therefore grounds for a lawsuit.

So how many sequential versions of an operating system,  supporting processor and perhipherals would one need to store (or progressively Save As) to read the treasure map stored on that media 14 billion years from now?

I ask this because my two-year old MacBook Pro can't read 3.5" floppies, 100 MB Zip cartridges or 5.25" floppies. Also lost to the ages: letters written on a Franklin Ace 1000 (Apple II clone) about 1985; print designs created using Adobe PageMaker running System 7 (Mac) in 1995.

* JB *