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Not everything that's old is worth saving.

This is a piece of shared history of computing. It's worth saving. That's different from having funding to do it.

>those tapes will probably also be discarded as well.

Maybe the Berkeley Library would take them.

The UC Berkeley library is getting its funding cut. The physics library and some other have been closed.

it doesn't cost much to put some shelf meters of tapes in the closed stacks.

Do you know how I know you're not a librarian?

Surely they could auction them on eBay for good money.