Hi Richard:

You don't archive anything to "archival media" for safety anymore? I do. Don't most people? Maybe
not?

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard L. Hess" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Clarifying the MAM-A gold comment


> At 06:46 AM 2006-12-12, Tom Fine wrote:
>>I am actually somewhat surprised that there isn't a large enough medical and mil-spec market for
>>high-quality data storage that a manufacturer would have enough critical mass right there. Tack on
>>archvies/institutions and the music "business" (in quotes because it is quickly becoming the
>>opposite of a business model if business model = profitable and long-term) and it seems there's
>>room for a quality niche. Why not?
>
> Because...the only real niche for optical media are the archives too small for a managed digital
> store. All of the large institutions are looking towards managed digital stores aka institutional
> repositories.
>
> It's true. You and I keep things on spinning hard drives even now.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
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