[AccessD] Academia still using Card Indexes

I had a chuckle about this.

"These days, wed photograph the plants and store them in an electronic 
database as an extended datatype (although whether recreating the 
database from a set of CDs in a box in a cupboard some 150 years later 
would be as feasible as recreating Henslows work is moot). But perhaps 
we wouldnt."

Well, I once had to look at early 19'th century legal records that had 
to be entered into a database that were contained
in tin boxes in the dungeons of an old fort on St Lucia in the Caribbean.
It turned out the dungeons were old slave pens and the tin boxes to keep 
the rats from eating them.
I was very careful examining them and carried a large flashlight and hammer.

By the way it was Captain Beaufort (of wind scale fame) who asked 
Henslow for someone
to accompany the Beagle's expedition.


Stuart McLachlan wrote:

>"Makes you think. And one thing it makes me think is that there are still 
>unexplored opportunities for database specialists out there."
>
>http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/04/10/henslow_darwin_sqlserver/
>
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-- 
Marty Connelly
Victoria, B.C.
Canada