[geeks] Best media for personal long-term backup?

[Lionel Peterson]

On Feb 27, 2009, at 6:48 PM, Rick Hamell <hamellr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> On Feb 27, 2009, at 3:47 PM, nate at portents.com wrote:
>>
>>> So I recently began the process of pulling out my CD-R discs that  
>>> are 10
>>> years old and older (I think my oldest disc is now 14 years) out and
>>> transferring the contents temporarily to my NAS for re- 
>>> organization and
>>> re-archiving, and I need to decide on the storage medium again for  
>>> the
>>> new
>>> (old) archive.
>>
>> Paper tape?
>>
>> (how long would a terabyte 'long' paper tape be?! ;^)
>
> Hmmm... and would you write in binary or hexadecimal? And at what  
> font size?

Punched-geeze, how young are you? (Or, maybe, How old am I? ;^)

Lionel