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The Paper Data Storage Option (codinghorror.com)
8 points by Nate879 6160 days ago
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"However, by looking on CD or magnetic tape, you are not able to tell whether your data is readable or not."

Since the paper is not human readable, you still don't know whether you have a backup or a printer fart. Also, I just don't see any need for this, the density and read/write time are so ridiculously worse than even floppies, it just sounds useless.