At 10:30 PM 2/22/2005, Steven C. Barr wrote: >The interesting thing is, that based on several criteria: Lifespan (and >absence of natural deterioration); ease of data recovery; obviousness that >the artifact contains data and how to retrieve that data...the best choice >would seem to be the shellac disc! However, nobody makes them, or even >makes the equipment to make them! Steve, Almost two years ago, on 2003-04-01, NPR reported that this was indeed the future of sound recording. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1216161 The article even mentions our own Steve Smolian <grin, duck, and run> Cheers, Richard Richard L. Hess email: [log in to unmask] Vignettes Media web: http://www.richardhess.com/tape/ Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 713 6733 1-877-TAPE-FIX