The following comes from the 3/11/02 issue of Informationweek.com
and speaks for itself. - C.J. Scheiner
"The idea was to create a British tech showcase: a digital time
capsule, a multimedia version of the DOMESDAY BOOK, showing life in
the United Kingdom circa 1986. The original, compiled by Norman monks
in 1086, is doing fine, but the $3.6 million BBC Domesday Project is
already unreadable. The computers needed to play the 12-inch laser
discs are almost extinct. Specialists are working to recover the
discs' data" - Esther Schindler