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Say Goodbye to T-tapes (1Jun94)
(from KPNO, NOAO Newsletter No. 38, 1 June 1994)

The Save-the-Bits project on Kitt Peak has been so successful that we
have decided to use it as a replacement for the T-tapes, which have
been used for many years as a temporary backup system for observers.
With the beginning of the fall observing semester on 15 August, the
venerable T-tapes will disappear from the mountain, and observers will
no longer be advised to make backup copies of their data to leave
behind for temporary storage downtown.  However, observers are still
advised to make careful copies of their data for transport to their
home institutions.  Although the data are being archived automatically
each night by the Save-the-Bits project, this should only be viewed as
an emergency backup by the observer.  Taping data and/or transporting
it back home is still the observer's responsibility.

Caty Pilachowski

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