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| From: | Joe Zeff |
| Subject: | Re: [Pan-users] Re: OT: freedomware vs... Was: Building Pan on Windows? |
| Date: | Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:57:30 -0800 |
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On 03/08/2010 03:57 PM, Leslie Newell wrote:
IMHO the greatest threat to long term storage of data is failure to back it up.
There's also the issue of equipment to read the media. Much of the Apollo data was recorded on mag tapes. I gather that the tapes still exist, but that there are very few readers that can handle them. How about earlier records kept on punched tape?
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