Packrat or Archivist? [ was Adventures in GPG ]

[Dan Jenkins]

Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:

>> - 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
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>>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 :)
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>Well, you left out those strange half-size cards that IBM had,
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I have boxes full of these still. (Well, I think I have boxes of these. 
The mice may have nice homes instead. :-)

>and you left out seven-track tape, and you did not specify your tape
>density for the 9-track (800, 1600, 9600, etc.)
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>You also did not state if your floppies were soft-sectored or
>hard-sectored, what density they were.
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Don't forget single or double-sided. Or rim or center hard-sector holes. 
(Vydec was one of the few rim-sectored, if I recollect.)

>You left out 1/4 QIC tape, 8mm tape, 4mm tape, TK50 tapes
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And WORM laser discs too. Plus Syquest, Zip, Jaz removable disks.

>And finally, are your DVDs +/- or RAM, double layered or not.....
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>md
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