[SCC_Active_Members] Software Archive Problem Statements?

[Al Kossow]

Courtney, Lee wrote:
>> The information recovered from media cannot be assumed to be 
>> correct. It may be mislabeled (not not labeled at all) 
>> overwriten, or corrupted from the original with things like viruses.
> 
> Al - are we keeping original source material (e.g. 9-track tapes, paper
> tapes, punch cards, disk packs)? 

Forever?

No, we are not, particularly in the case of magnetic media.

This is no different than the policies of other collections, in particular
video tape.