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Old August 17th 04, 07:49 AM
Gary Whitehead
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DAT tapes!

Having the disc space for this is not a problem nowadays, but I certainly
would not be doing it without backup. The entire collection should fit on
around 30 tapes (12GB), at a cost of about 150 euros.

I'm also reckoning on us being at a cusp, i.e. in a few years the amount of
data that this will produce will fit easily into normal spec machines.

Cheers,

Gary.

bmoag wrote:

Have you considered the practical realities of creating files this large,
about 100mbs per file?

Have you considered the real world utility of 16 bit color vs the ideal
(i.e. no monitor or printing method can utilize that much color
information and will in some way arbitrarily truncate it anyway)?

I hope your are a very young man so that you may live to complete this
project.