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1960 Census was Re: CD Longevity



Regarding the 1960 Census, please see:

Myths and Realities about the 1960 Census
<http://www.nara.gov/publications/prologue/gene1960.html> 

"...the Report repeated what was by then
already an apocryphal story:

By the mid 1970s, when computer tapes for the 1960
census came to the attention of archivists, there remained
only two machines capable of reading them. One was
already in the Smithsonian. The other was in Japan!(2)