Software Preservation (was: SIMTEL...)

From: R. D. Davis <rdd_at_rddavis.org>
Date: Thu Apr 4 22:35:35 2002

Quothe Douglas H. Quebbeman, from writings of Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 04:52:58PM -0500:
> from the SIMTEL archive. As it turns out, the QIC-80 tape
> they're on must have stretched, and I only wrote one set

Sorry to hear that this happened to your tape. :-(

I'm becoming convinced that the safest way to preserve software is to
keep it on a live filesystem that's frequently backed up, using at
least one type of relatively modern storage media - or at least on
mylar tape, although that's impractical for large amounts of data (and
impractical for me because I haven't acquired a tape punch/reader
yet). Any thoughts on this?

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