re: #186 Charles

That’s right — in the 1980s 10MB hard drives were state of the art. Climatology datasets are enormous, and take up very large amounts of storage space. Jones’ explanation for why they could not archive the original NOAA data makes perfect sense — especially when you realize that all they had was a COPY of the data, and the NOAA retained the original.

Oh God that brings back memories. I remember getting my first “hard card” at work. It was 10mb and I remember telling people that it would take me till retirement till I could fill it up!