To all with interest in IBM 7090

I'm at university right now, studying classics(ancient rome and greece), and this reminds me of something my prof told me. He was participating in one dig where they ended up uncovering a grand total of about ten *tons* of potsherds. That's about nine thousand kilograms for the metric inclined. The problem is that most of them had no real diagnostic value - no markings, nothing unusual. Not really much to be learned from them. Of course, you couldn't put them in a museum. All the museums in the world put together don't have space for ten tons of random, unmarked potsherds. I had thought they should see about selling them, lots of people would love to have a piece of ancient greece - but, no, my prof pointed out that they would then become fodder for forgers. So, what to do? Fortunately, at the time, Athens Airport was building a new runway - and needed fill. Those potsherds are buried under the runway.