In the early 1960s, while looking at some Census Bureau magnetic tapes,
Meyer Fishbein, then a member of the Office of Records Appraisal at the
National Archives and Records Service (NARS), asked what they did with them.

The Bureau promptly replied they erased the tapes and reused them (thus
saving $12.50 per tape—a hefty sum in those days). They didn’t see it as an
issue because they hadn’t been saving their punch cards and this, in their
minds, was the same thing.


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