Historic records saved from scrap pile.

• Position: International Business Machines Corp. - Brief article

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More than 7,000 documents dating back to British Columbia's time as a British colony were almost lost forever.

Copies of the historic records had been digitally copied at the University of Victoria during the 1980s and stored on an IBM mainframe computer. As the computer was on its way to the scrap pile, staff realized what was on its database.

The documents include 19th-century...