Packrat or Archivist? [ was Adventures in GPG ]
Jon 'maddog' Hall
maddog at li.org
Tue Mar 20 22:57:09 EDT 2007
> - paper tape to punch cards
> - punch cards to 9-track tape
> - 9-track tapes to 8" floppies
> - 8" floppies to 5.25" floppies
> - 5.25" floppies to 3.5" floppies
> - 3.5" floppies to a CD
> - CDs to DVD
>
> And they'll probably consolidate all there DVDs someday to something
> else. Somewhere, someone has ENIAC or UNIVAC source code that's
> passed through all these media :)
Well, you left out those strange half-size cards that IBM had,
and you left out seven-track tape, and you did not specify your tape
density for the 9-track (800, 1600, 9600, etc.)
You also did not state if your floppies were soft-sectored or
hard-sectored, what density they were.
You left out 1/4 QIC tape, 8mm tape, 4mm tape, TK50 tapes
And finally, are your DVDs +/- or RAM, double layered or not.....
md
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