Reply to post: Re: Not really much of a problem

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Re: Not really much of a problem

I worked on US Census data in the 1980s, stored on magnetic tape, with an access program called CENSPAC, a derivative of COBOL. I suspect much of that demographic data (and back then, the Census asked a lot) is unreadable now.

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