I had a deck of punch cards fall into a mud puddle once...  (LOTS of soybean 
disease data to be re-punched!)

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richard

From: Scott Schneider [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 2:47 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Google Drive

Your just a young'un. I remember 8" floppies, both hard and soft sectored. We 
used to have to change a pulley to get European drives to work in North 
America. There are CNC machines on our shop floor that can still read paper 
tape (we use an RS232 interface instead) :o)

From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: April-12-13 1:28 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Google Drive

5.25" floppies were the ultimate in reliability.  You could put them into your 
pocket, folder them up, and even spill soda on them.  (I recovered data from 
two different soda spill scenarios)

I suspect that the feeble density of the data is what helped us with those, and 
what kills us with everything else.  :)




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