Archival storage

[woodelf]

Fred Cisin wrote:

>"could not punch out 2,000 binary cards"????
>I've punched many decks much larger than that.
>(DP of Office of Civil Rights, Space Sciences Data Center at GSFC)
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Well you can read it yourself.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/mmdd/SiliconValley/Backus/backus.html

>You CAN refill the supply
>and empty the output without stopping the punch.
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>But,..
>tape certainly is HANDY when you are talking about more than a box of
>cards.
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Looking at all the restored old software ,  very little seems to have 
been kept in a vault
like old movies by DEC or IBM or the other  computer companies. I think 
this is reminding
us something important, private people need to be able to have 
information that only the
today M$ and Intel are keeping private to themselves.