In a message dated 4/24/2006 7:09:51 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
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Cuneiform on baked clay tablets may not stand up to rampaging  looters,
but otherwise is eternal--IF the clay has been baked hard  enough.  Stone
tablets are the most durable of all, but are hard to  interface with any
sort of computer--dropping them onto a scanner plate  from, say a two
foot height tends to cause an absolutely irretrievable  device crash.
Where's that paleo-bird with the very sharp beak, once found  inside Fred
Flintstone's camera, when you need it?

D.  Babson.


Uhh... "Remember man, thou [digital photos] art dust?"