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nxobjecttoday at 7:14 AM1 replyview on HN

As the article belatedly mentions, the ~40 GB automated tape library for HARVEST was the bee's knees... and possibly the inspiration for "harvest now, encrypt later".

PS – Primary sources for the IBM 7950/HARVEST on Bitsavers, excellent as always:

https://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/7950/


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MeteorMarctoday at 8:25 AM

Decrypt later, I suppose.

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