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Re:Inside Votizen - Tech, Design, Culture by pavel_lishin on Thursday April 12, 2012 @02:34PM (#3833639)
> David: One state had its voter file arrive on a magnetic tape format called 128 CPI — characters per inch of magnetic tape (same format that was used by UNIVAC in 1951) — which is probably how Auric Goldfinger stored his data. Converting it to something useable was more expensive than acquiring the tape itself.

That's amazing. I wonder which state it was.

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