[Pontiac]

Jones was not in charge of the CRU when the data were thrown away in the 1980s, a time when climate change was seen as a less pressing issue.

A terabyte of disk space in the 80’s when the data was supposedly tossed would have cost (maybe hundreds of) thousands of dollars.

Back then the disk you would have been talking about for storage most likely would have been floppies.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Magnetic tape was available and used by such agencies as the US Dept of Agriculture for many statistics relating to agriculture and payments.