Tuesday, September 15, 2009 6:38:27 PM
WASHINGTON A slice of America's history has become as unreadable as Egyptian hieroglyphics before the discovery of the Rosetta stone.
And there's more historic, scientific and business data in danger of dissolving into a meaningless jumble of letters, numbers and computer symbols. Americans paid billions to collect the information and may now have to fork over millions more to preserve it.
That's part of the price for the country's embrace of more and more powerful computers. Much information from the last 30 years is stranded on computer tape from primitive or discarded systems - unintelligible or soon to be so.
As a result, hundreds of thousands of Americans who are researching ...
Somebody register and post the rest of it.......
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