24 Jun
1998
24 Jun
'98
12:04 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
I'm not talking about bonding oxides to Tyvek -- I'm talking about
punching holes in long by 1" (or whatever the proper width is) strips
of it.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Since I lost the paper tapes from my (only ever)
scholastic experience
with computers (1978-9, HP-2000A, Foothill College, one BASIC course
then tutoring) a long time ago due to cat pee. As far as I know, that
You were unlucky - very... (and I'd better keep the cat out of the
computer room :-)). I once found a length of paper tape on a muddy river
bank. Curiousity made me pick it up, and after wiping it off and drying
it on a radiator overnight, I had no problem at all in reading it on a
Trend optical reader. IIRC it contained some kind of Fortran source code.
Tyvek stuff can only be destroyed by fire --
well, it _can_ be stretched,
I think you'll find that paper (at least) will withstand higher
temperatures than most magnetic media...