On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 14:59 +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
Speaking as a medievalist (which I may or may not be), I'd like to suggest that, at least where information is concerned, "get rid of" is the old-fashioned attitude and "preservation" is modern.
;-)
It's a shame that the same attitude wasn't applied to the Moon Landing high res tapes...of the 700 tapes all but 2 are missing and the last facility that maintains the equipment to read the sstv tapes is to shut down later this year :-(