From the National Disc...

In small writing on the inside of the 1986 Domesday Disc box it says:

"For more information look up 'Domesday' on the National Disc."

If you do that, you are presented with an essay by the Project's Editor, Peter Armstrong. I present it here as a pdf.

As a moment in the history of media technology I think it's of some importance. What do you think?

It refers to a lot of things on the National Disc which we haven't been able to present as part of Domesday Reloaded.

 The Domesday Discs may be the last to be produced in this way. This is because they are primarily intended as historical records. A comprehensive home and institutional knowledge base kept up to date by datacasting techniques will be a different step, but one that I personally hope that, as a result of the Domesday Project, the BBC and others will want to explore.

If you get a chance this summer, it is well worth getting along to some of the museums and institutions that still have working Domesday systems, and having a nose round the National Disc.

(By the Way, we hope to be able to offer more of the professionally written essays from the National Disc over coming weeks as we approach the culmination of Domesday Reloaded).