reel to reel QR tape
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reel to reel QR tape
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@zens put this QR code through your fax machine
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Luci for dyeingreplied to Luci for dyeing last edited by
there is a service
i swear i am not making this upthey will do data backups for you in the form of grids of miniaturised QR codes printed onto rolls of 35mm film.
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John-Mark Gurneyreplied to Luci for dyeing last edited by
@zens I'm sad that w/ how advanced modern coding theory is, that QR codes are used.
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@zens this is cursed microform
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Luci for dyeingreplied to John-Mark Gurney last edited by
@encthenet if your medium was 35mm film how would you do it?
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@zens mate this makes me physically angry on behalf of the drawers of microform newspapers and documents that libraries retain. I got seasick doing research in the early 2000s for this?
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@zens @encthenet if your medium is film 35mm or 4x5 it’s actually ideal for reproduction of indexed text documents and line drawings in a format well recognised by industry. Aaaaarrgh
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@zens @encthenet this was literally one of the highest late-20thC developments of analogue visual reproduction tech. It was and remains a marvel
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Luci for dyeingreplied to Liam :fnord: last edited by
@liamvhogan @encthenet i guess OCR-A and OCR-B were created for when there was a nead to convert to a digital file efficiently and accurately
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Liam :fnord:replied to Luci for dyeing last edited by
@zens @encthenet yes exactly. Textual material accessible to both machines and eyeballs. But in an era where it was assumed the eventual repository of the backup would be human readable