[Erasmus]

Then there is the cost of converting print data to digital which at the time would have been expensive and time consuming.

Not just "at the time!"

At work, I'm having to deal with thousands of lines of hard copy binary data from the 1970s.

Formerly hundreds of pages of printed ASCII ones and zeros, It's been retrieved from microfilm into crappy PDF scans that completely flummox our OCR software. We need it in text files composed of ASCII hex characters. Wotta mess.

[Pontiac]

Wow!

My curiosity is peaked.

Why are you doing that?

[GEC]

Yes, it’s a mess, but if there’s trillions of dollars at stake on the answer, you do the work anyway.

These guys are a joke.