Re: Course materials for MIT 6.031 (c. 1974) scanned

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Oct 1, 2019, at 8:15 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> On 2019-10-01 6:28 p.m., ben via cctalk wrote:
>> Strange Paper tape lasts forver,Digial media is lost after the latest
>> server crash
> 
> Both better have backups. Paper tape doesn't do well in fires and floods.

I remember Mylar punched tape.  That stuff is amazingly strong and waterproof.  
I've seen it for paper tapes that were intended to be read thousands of times 
-- OS boot tapes for example, or the correction data tape for an instrument in 
my father's lab.

DECtape is pretty waterproof; there have been reports of reels accidentally 
being run through the laundry and coming out perfectly readable afterwards.

        paul