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To: Yogi - Paul who wrote (5393)	2/2/1999 4:26:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9256

Yogi, thank you for exposing the next dilemma after Y2K! I will immediately research paper stocks, since these companies are going to benefit. >>"We know paper lasts for hundreds of years," said Milton Halem, chief of the Earth and Space Data Computer Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the primary author of the paper. "We have satellite observations that we need to save for more than 100 years...for their potential value to scientific and societal applications."<< Gottfried

To: Yogi - Paul who wrote (5393)	2/2/1999 8:10:00 PM
From: Stitch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9256

Yogi, You continue to drop little gems in my lap. Your article that puts data storage challenges at NASA in context was very entertaining for me. Especially the following: <<<Tom Engel, manager of high-performance systems with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), a federally funded weather research facility in Boulder, Colo., said he is trying to restore data from seven-track tapes, a technology that was popular 20 years ago but is no longer manufactured. "We had a heck of a time finding a seven-track tape reader,'' he said, adding that the same fate could befall current storage media.>> I can't even begin to tell you how many 7 track tape drives I sold to NASA as a regional sales guy for an OEM tape drive company out of Dallas 20 years ago. Beauxcoup! This one rang the memory cells. Thanks, Stitch