Macintosh and Linux documentation is being developed. Advanced users of those systems will certainly be able to extract and apply the configuration information contained in the current documentation. Please check the Web site for the latest support information. Our purpose is to reduce the need for removable media. We will see how they were pivotal in providing computing services to the widest number of University community members.
Many removable media are a great medium of exchange and a good medium for archiving.
However, they are also fragile. Centralized storage mitigates many of their shortcomings. Punch cards are forever If you were to ask someone who has been using computers for more than a couple of decades about the good old days, you would likely hear stories about eighty-column punch cards. These were the most common form of computer storage at the time. Users would come to the computer center, punch their cards at typewriter-like machines and submit their programs to be run.