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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