Archiving tapes

[John Foust]

At 04:53 PM 2/21/2005, Jim Leonard wrote:
>It was created in 1985 by Electronic Arts, initially as a
>common way for game developers to transfer graphics data between
>platforms (this was before graphics standards like GIF were in wide
>use).

It's a sad day.  Someone wrote an accurate description of IFF 
without ever once mentioning the word "Amiga".

As I recall, Microsoft didn't start using RIFF until 1990 or so.

- John