inactive tapes from Federal Records Center

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inactive tape locations

There were 1272 inactive tapes at the Federal Records Center (FRC) from the mid-1970's until November 1996. From 11/96 until 2/97, at LBL's 7th Street warehouse, they were separated from other tapes, for long-term storage at Nor-Cal. The shipping orders to FRC were prepared by Bonnie Kapus in LBL's Archives and Record Department.

A first shipment of 237 cases, 0127-1391, was packed by Deane Merrill into output cases dm001-dm093 in 11/96. A second shipment of 207 cases, 1402-2908, was packed into output cases dm093-dm159 in 2/97.

All 159 output cases, dm001-dm159, 8 tapes per box, (159*8=1272 tapes), were shipped in 5/97, to Nor-Cal Records Management, 10901 Bigge Street, San Leandro CA 94577. Nor-Cal contact: Julie Miller, 510-635-1944, X232. Owner contact: Deane Merrill, merrill@crocker.com, or Val Gregg, U.S. Bureau of the Census, 301-457-4102, vgregg@census.gov; or Don James, U.S. Bureau of the Census, 301-457-1758, Donald.R.James@ccmail.census.gov, project no. 20-00-70-0301-00-2590.


Complete tape lists:

The preceding information was copied from csa.lbl.gov:: [merrill.junk] to seedis.lbl.gov:: [users.merrill.fromlbl.merrill.junk] on 9/30/97. A VMS backup save set is in seedis.lbl.gov:: [merrill.fromlbl.merrill.junk] backup_970930.bck.


inactive tape contents

Some of the most important tapes are the following:

partial contents, from complete tape list: ialist1.cod 11/6/96

owner	  tapes	tape name(s)	description
----------- ---	---------------	--------------------------------------------
gey,f	      1	CNAGR49SR	1949 Census of Agriculture
gey,f	      1	CNAGR59SR	1959 Census of Agriculture
gey,f	      2	CTY60PCSRn	1960 Census, county level
gey,f	      1	CNAGR64SR	1964 Census of Agriculture
gey,f	      1	LCMFG63SR	1963 Census of Manufactures
gey,f	      2	CBP65Bn		1965 County Business Patterns
gey,f	      1	LCMFG67SR	1967 Census of Manufactures
gey,f	      2 CNAGR69SRn	1969 Census of Agriculture
gey,f	      6	CNSUS70SRn	1970 Census 1st count	
gey,f       ~40	EDBGSnnn	1970 Census 5th count (BG/EDs)
gey,f         8	C5MCDSR00n	1970 Census 5th count (MCDs)
gey,f	      2	CBP72Bn		1972 County Business Patterns
gey,f	      1	CCDBMRGSRC	mult Merged County City Data Book 
healey,r      1 MEDLIST72	1970 Census Master Enumeration District List
healey,r      ?	H1ANY0n0n	1970 Census 1st Count Housing, New York
healey,r      ?	Cmm2A0n0n	1970 Census 2th Count Pop File A, state mm
healey,r      ?	Hmm2A0n0n	1970 Census 2th Count Hous File A, state mm
healey,r      ?	Cmm2B0n0n	1970 Census 2th Count Pop File B, state mm
healey,r      ?	Cmm4A0n0n	1970 Census 4th Count Pop File A, state mm
healey,r      ?	Cmm4B0n0n	1970 Census 4th Count Pop File B, state mm
healey,r      ?	Cmm4C0n0n	1970 Census 4th Count Pop File C, state mm
healey,r      ?	Cmm4D0n0n	1970 Census 4th Count Pop File D, state mm
healey,r      1	C644A0101	1970 Census 4th Count File A, Puerto Rico
healey,r      2	C644B0n02	1970 Census 4th Count File B, Puerto Rico
healey,r      1	C644D0101	1970 Census 4th Count File D, Puerto Rico
healey,r      ?	Cmm6C0n0n	1970 Census 6th Count Pop File C, state mm
healey,r      ?	Hmm6C0n0n	1970 Census 6th Count Hous File C, state mm
healey,r      1	OCCMATRIX	1970 Industry by Occupation (?)
gey,f	      1	CNMIN72SR	1972 Census of Mineral Industries
gey,f	      1 CNAGR74SR	1974 Census of Agriculture
healey,r      ?	CPSyy0n0n	19yy Current Population Survey
merrill,d     5 WSSAn		mult BLS Wage and Salaries, States and Areas
schroeder     ? CBPyy		19yy County Business Patterns
schroeder     1	REVENUE75	1975 Revenue Sharing data
schroeder    11	SIEmnOFn	1976 Survey of Income and Education, Region m
seedis	     10 CBP19yyB	19yy County Business Patterns
All 159*8=1272 inactive tapes were recorded by Deane Merrill in a yellow spiral notebook, which is now contained in a folder "SEEDIS-data-tapes-inactive." The information recorded includes the 5-digit tape number, the box number dm001-dm159, and any useful information on the physical tape label (tape contents, density, format, etc).

In general, the tape contents can be inferred from the table given above and the the tape name in the inactive tape list. Except as noted in the inactive tape list and the contents of the yellow notebook, the tape density (800/1600/6250bpi) and format (7-track/9-track) are not always known.

The contents of the yellow spiral notebook were transcribed into an Excel97 Workspace as merrill1.xlw on 12/18/97, "task 1" by Kofo Domingo, MK Transcribing Services, 900 Campus Dr. #321, Daly City, CA 94015. (415)-994-8049. The diskette is stored with the spiral notebook.

The following files were temporarily stored in csr6.lbl.gov c:\tapes\

readme.txt	DOS text		file summary, tasks 1 and 2
merrill1.xlw	Excel97 Workspace	7x2303, 189K, 12/18/97
merrill1.xls	Excel95 Worksheet	7x2303, 172K, 2/21/98
merrill1.txt	tab delimited text	7x2303, 64K, 2/19/98
tapes.zip	ZIP archive		merrill1.xls, merrill1.txt,
					readme.txt, and task 2 files
Contents of the 1272 inactive tapes described above (task1), plus 1989 active tapes and 204 high-use tapes (task2), are described in Contents of LBL Tapes
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http://merrill.wwh.net/pdocs/frc.html 2/21/98
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