A very interesting article posted on Slashdot about the storage problems
that are being experienced by the government:
http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1999/0125/fcw-newsstorage-1-25-99.html
If you don't feel like checking, it's about how it takes them so long to
transfer data to new tapes, the tapes begin to decay by the time they're
done.