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Subject: Re: Archaeology of the Trailing Edge of Technology
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Date: 15 Apr 91 23:38:04 GMT
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In article <1991Apr13.065406.24775@ms.uky.edu> ghot@ms.uky.edu (Allan Adler) writes:
>
>A friend of mine told me that someone got her PhD in archaeology from
>Columbia University in the last two or three decades by writing a thesis
>on the methods that were used to make vacuum tubes. This was written after
>the invention of the transistor.
>
This reminds me to put in a plug for the organization, "Friends of 
Archaeology".  Our code is that before sending anything to the dump
we write a description of what it is and how it is used, in 3 languages,
encase it in a plastic bag, and attach to the article being discarded.

;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)