In 2000, the tenaciously original evolutionary biologist and Royal Society professor Bill Hamilton died after an expedition to the rainforests of Africa, and within months his archive was delivered to the British Library in London. Unlike archives received in the past, this one did not consist only of boxes of papers - handwritten letters, typed draft essays and the like. It also included a hoard of computers and storage media from the early 1960s onwards - from 5-hole paper tapes and 80-column punched cards through to optical disks - which occupied 26 of the 200 boxes.
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