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19-06-2015, 23:12
<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"><tr><td width="80" align="center" valign="top"><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=en_ie&usg=AFQjCNE1kHCuEdWV8E7slG7lunlCyqihqg&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=y6GEVdjBJseBa-zGmKgN&url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-20/collecting-retro-computer-technology-to-save-digital-treasures/6560494"><img src="//t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ3BX07jXc8-5bVzMCoyX1vYEu4a9bbn_k9W8r8cDRf_-y7wHUJGWu_QoOMPeERyMek7iGHND1_" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80"><br><font size="-2">ABC Online</font></a></font></td><td valign="top" class="j"><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br><div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1"></div><div class="lh"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=en_ie&usg=AFQjCNE1kHCuEdWV8E7slG7lunlCyqihqg&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=y6GEVdjBJseBa-zGmKgN&url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-20/collecting-retro-computer-technology-to-save-digital-treasures/6560494"><b>Trash to treasure: Retro computer, software collection helps National Library <b>...</b></b></a><br><font size="-1"><b><font color="#6f6f6f">ABC Online</font></b></font><br><font size="-1">... computer files and digital images from the past 20 years. NLA&#39;s manager of digital preservation David Pearson said the storage vaults included everything from a working <b>Commodore 64</b> computer, to one of the earliest word processing programs, Wordstar.</font><br><font size="-1" class="p"></font><br><font class="p" size="-1"><a class="p" href="http://news.google.ie/news/more?ncl=d_YoBh6fX37qE4M&authuser=0&ned=en_ie"><nobr><b></b></nobr></a></font></div></font></td></tr></table>

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