I guess I’m not the only one who thinks that printing a program listing to paper is a viable data storage solution. Louis Sander, from Philadelphia, seems to think along the same lines as me, in this regard 
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I’ve been reading through the old PDF scans of the Commodore user magazine, RUN, and happened across this posting in the reader submitted tips and tricks section entitled. Louis recommends to protect your programs from being accidentally erased or lost forever do to a failing floppy disk, print them out and store the file away in a filing cabinet.
Hey, I thought it was a pretty good idea, too! I guess I’m not (or at least wasn’t) the only person who saw the value of using printed material as a good way of storing computer data.
I’ve been enjoying reading through the old magazines. I didn’t realize how much coverage of the C128 was published in RUN magazine. They really seemed to put an effort in to providing useful information for new 128 owners. Not only did they provide programs specifically for BASIC 7.0 (which was the 128’s main operating mode), but they also covered quite a bit of CP/M features and software. I’m most impressed.
If I bought and read more of RUN magazine back in the day, I certainly would have gotten more out of my C128 apart from using the C64 mode.
[tag]commodore, history[/tag]