The Domesday Project (Draft Printout)
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The idea for a 20th Century Domesday Book, produced in a form that would make it widely available, was only possible because of recent developments in optical storage. This technology was developed in the 1970s and depends on a laser beam reading millions of 'pits' representing pictures, sound and data in the spiral track of a plastic disc. It is the density of this data storage and the fact that discs can be pressed rather than recorded that has opened up the new possibilities of electronic publishing. Date : Circa 1982-1983Creator : Peter Armstrong, Editor, BBC Domesday Project Format : A4 Document Loose Pages This exhibit has a reference ID of CH60653. Please quote this reference ID in any communication with the Centre for Computing History. |
 
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