1 Oct
2019
1 Oct
'19
5:22 p.m.
On Oct 1, 2019, at 8:15 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 2019-10-01 6:28 p.m., ben via cctalk wrote:
I remember Mylar punched tape. That stuff is amazingly strong and waterproof. I've
seen it for paper tapes that were intended to be read thousands of times -- OS boot tapes
for example, or the correction data tape for an instrument in my father's lab.
DECtape is pretty waterproof; there have been reports of reels accidentally being run
through the laundry and coming out perfectly readable afterwards.
paul
Strange Paper tape lasts forver,Digial media is
lost after the latest
server crash
Both better have backups. Paper tape doesn't do well in fires and floods.