Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Digital Domesday Book lasts 15 years not 1000 Sunday March 3, 2002 The Observer It was meant to be a showcase for Britain's electronic prowess - a computer-based, multimedia version of the Domesday Book. But 16 years after it was created, the ?2.5 million BBC Domesday Project has achieved an unexpected and unwelcome status: it is now unreadable. The special computers developed to play the 12in video discs of text, photographs, maps and archive footage of British life are - quite simply - obsolete. More here: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,661093,00.html http://tinyurl.com/499ox -- Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana USA