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|I'm interested in knowing for how long outdated copies of technical
|documentation should be saved (e.g., in company archives). We currently
keep
|one copy of each book in the archives, and we never throw any out.
|(Has anyone ever had to actually access an outdated version?)
|michal -at- telaviv -dot- ddddf -dot- com
I can't speak about software documentation, but we've had requests for
hardware (mainframe) documents over twenty years after publication.
Richard Wollt
Unisys Roseville
rcw1 -at- rsvl -dot- unisys -dot- com
