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<p>Dave,</p>
<p>When I got out of college (OSU) there wasn't a lot of software
jobs in Oregon other than business/bank stuff. So I worked in
field service for 3 years for DEC, Harris CSD and Tektronix
terminals in Wilsonville. Tape drives were the worse, then disk
drives and the old drum line printers.<br>
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<p>Saw a documentary on the Library of Congress where they were just
doing the initial archival going from analog to digital. That was
going to take a long time to get the initial pass done. Once done
with that they figured they would start moving from the old media
to the newest media and that would keep them busy forever.</p>
<p>At one time there was a lot of information from the early space
missions that was archived and never looked at. When they wanted
to look at it the hardware to do it was long gone. Someone bought
a bunch of the tape drives they used (which were some odd format,
not 8 or 9 track) and refurbished them to get the data off.</p>
<p>When I worked at Tek as a contractor I had to be petty anal about
archival because when I was gone someone else would have to do
maintenance on the code. Also if I came back I would of forgotten
the details of what I had done.</p>
<p>Stay cool this weekend.<br>
Jay S.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/26/2022 3:14 PM, Dave Brown wrote:<br>
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</b>Matthew Skala via Synth-diy<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, June 26, 2022 2:29 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Jay Schwichtenberg
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">On Sun, 26 Jun
2022, Jay Schwichtenberg via Synth-diy wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">> If you do
this in real life you archive all the software used,
including the<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">> OS. You're a
fucking idiot if you don't. That was one of the first things
I<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">> was
programmed to do when I started doing this type of work.
Some places I've<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">> worked you
pull the hard drive and archive it too. Even so you still
might not<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">This is another
good reason to be wary of development tools that want<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">network access to
phone home; limited-time license keys mediated by<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">license servers;
and automatic updates.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Matthew Skala<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">North Coast
Synthesis Ltd.<o:p></o:p></p>
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