They are required to keep it by law, and they will get paid to look for stuff, if anyone (most likely the government of a court) wants them to, so I am not sure why they should spend their own money to make that task easy...
Didier Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: "J. Forster" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:47:33 To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement<[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected], Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Maintaining boatanchors (was Capacitor Failures) True. I've been in warehouses with hundreds of rows of shelves of Bankers Boxes filled with records. I doubt the stuff is even indexed. -John ============== > Heathkid wrote: >> Backup images are fine... but has anyone considered or tried to contact >> the original programmers to get the actual code used? I'm sure there >> wouldn't be any reason someone would still consider 30+ year old code a >> "trade secret" and if one had the original code... could reasonably >> replicate an old programmed chip with a newer one. Just a thought. >> >> > more likely, nobody still working there knows what the original code is, > and they threw it away 10 years ago. > > I work in the spacecraft electronics business, and we're positively > compulsive about documentation, but there's plenty of stuff that just > gets lost. "Oh yeah, we were cleaning out Dave's office after he died, > and we just pitched all those printouts and databooks with the notes on > the pages. Everything is online now, right?" > > Or, it's somewhere in the archives, in one of several hundred boxes > labeled "miscellaneous documentation from 1981-1985" and it would cost > literally hundreds of dollars to retrieve the boxes and have someone > hunt through it for something that might or might not be there. > > Or, in a cost cutting thing "We have all these boxes of stuff from 1980 > that we're paying for storage on. Do you have a charge number for the > storage fees? No? Ok, into the trash it goes" > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
