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Washington State Archives Go Digital

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sunshine-laws dept.

prostoalex writes "USA Today and dozens of others report that Washington state archives went online. Over the past two years project participants scanned 1 million documents issued by state and country authorities. The archive is located in my alma mater Eastern Washington University (go Eagles!) The 800 terabyte storage system was developed by Microsoft and EDS."

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  1. BSOD? by SnowCrashed · · Score: 0, Troll

    "The 800 terabyte storage system was developed by Microsoft and EDS." I've always wondered what a BSOD looked liked on a system with 800 terrabytes... I wonder what OS they will be using for their systems.

  2. Keep the original paper copies... by HungSoLow · · Score: 0, Troll

    I wouldn't trust M$ with 640 KB of my sensitive data!