Larry, you left out:

- transitory records (sun-dried tablets);
- re-writable / erasable media (wax on wood tablets);
- post-its (potsherds), and
- the dead-beat medium (papyrus).

Have a lovely weekend, all!

Fred

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----- Original Message -----
From: Hibpshman, Larry E (EED) [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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Subject: Re: [RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK] Ex-Imperial Tobacco GC Questioned Over Destroying Health Documents

Chris Flynn wrote~

Tell us how was it to work in stone?

Cuneiform tablets. You write em., You bake em. They become rocks
(consider the German word for brick Bachstein). And thereby you have by
far the longest shelf longevity of content in recorded (& I do mean
recorded!) history.

 

Regards,

Larry-in-Alaska

 


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