Old tape drive proves its worth

[William Donzelli]

> 40 years ago, when I was working at the National Space Sciences Data
>  Center (building 26, Goddard Space Flight Center), tapes, decks of cards,
>  and Fortran source were going missing on a regular basis, and some of the
>  people managing the tape collections felt that only the most recent data
>  was worth keeping.  On a few occasions, I was handed "scratch" tapes to
>  use for output and transfer to plotters that had important sounding prior
>  labels on them.  "I'm sure that there must be a few more copies of that
>  data around somewhere."

Well, apparently there was.

--
Will