-- >> "...and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have just completed a >> multi-year effort to rescue the collection’s digital content from the Atari game >> cartridges, 5-1/4 inch floppy discs, magnetic tape and other deteriorating storage >> media that held it. That salvaged data is now safely archived on servers at the >> Stanford Digital Repository and has been added to NIST’s National Software Reference >> Library, --
>and based on what was said elsewhere, it's available to absolutely nobody except the >government..so it's not really preserved at all, just gone to rot in a different place.
NIST....them SOB hoarders....."The government!" as "shirtless Joe" correctly points out who to blame. "Potato Salad!"