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NCAR passed the petabyte mark in January using equipment provided by StorageTek® (Storage Technology Corp.), whose automated tape systems and tape drives have been in use at the center since 1986. Imagine robotic arms swapping tapes at high speed onto and off high-capacity tape drives.
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The last year for the SVO was 1986. In its last year it boasted a 2.3 intercooled turbo engine, dual exhaust, 200 horsepower with 240 torque, oil and water turbo cooling, a third brake light, and halogen bulb flush headlights.
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[A]dded as standard equipment in 1986 for additional protection from thieves was VATS (Vehicle Anti-Theft System), a simple yet effective feature designed to augment the existing burglar alarm. A small pellet with a specific electrical resistance was imbedded in the ignition key, and it had to be read by a hidden electronic "decoder" box before the engine could be started. Use the wrong key or try and start the vehicle by other means and the decoder would shut down the starter relay and fuel pump for at least two minutes before allowing another try.
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The 1986 law ... proposed a temporary worker program for agricultural workers. The program, however, was highly bureaucratic, inflexible, and unresponsive to the needs of the labor market. As a result, many employers opted to continue to rely on the undocumented workforce. The temporary worker program now proposed by the Senate suffers similar shortcomings.
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At one petabyte, the archive is now more than a thousand times larger than 1986, when it reached the one-terabyte level. One petabyte of data is 1,024 terabytes, or the equivalent of 500 billion pages of standard printed text. That's enough data to fill 500 million floppy disks and enough information to fill the Library of Congress 100 times.
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The framers of the 1986 Act promised rigorous enforcement of immigration laws. This included an employer verification system and a focus on workplace enforcement. These efforts failed to stem the growth of the undocumented workforce. Nevertheless, the authors of the current bill propose a similar strategy.
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