Message-Id: <mailto:199409020958.EAA14497@library.wustl.edu> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 14:57:13 WST+8 From: Maggie Exon <mailto:MAGGIE@BIBLIO.CURTIN.EDU.AU> Subject: Re: More digital resolution To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB <mailto:IMAGELIB@ARIZVM1.BITNET>
- > especially on a long term basis. It appears that there's a huge business
> opportunity born out of real need to be able to access data (no matter what its
> original method of storage). Are the Kodaks, Polaroids, Microsofts, IBMs,
> Apples of the world considering this?
>
> Doug Rea
There is undoubtedly a huge poential market for long-term image storage systems. The problem is that the supplier's definition of the meaning of long-term and mine differ by a factor of at least 10 and probably a lot more.
Maggie
Dr Maggie Exon, Senior Lecturer, School of Information and Library Studies, Curtin University of Technology, PO Box U1987, Perth, 6001, Western Australia. Phone (09) 351 7215; Fax (09) 351 3152 email: mailto:maggie@biblio.curtin.edu.au