[svlug] archive media of choice for 10~100GB

[Scott Hess]

On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, David Masten wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-01-01 various people wrote about:
> [various problems with long term archival on modern media]
> 
> Clay tablets have been proven to hold data accessibly for a few thousand
> years. Just keep the barbarian hordes away from the tablets. :-)
> (Data density is terrible though.) 

Any estimates for what percentage of those clay tablets have held their
data accessibly for thousands of years?  I'd hate to come back in the year
4096 and find that I can only recover records of 14 of my eBay
transactions and two days of the diary of my cross-country trip to
Bismark...

Later,
scott