Random conversation in Matt McGrath’s office a couple years ago after reading Nick Chrisman’s book we all knew

Others contend that the military provided little that the commercial world found useful (other than GPS)

Many significant military programs remained classified until the past ten years

• E.g., CORONA

Max Waters and Franklyn Perring (Biological Records Centre - BRC) author the Atlas of British Flora

• Max Waters and Franklyn Perring (Biological Records Centre - BRC) author the Atlas of British Flora

• BRC held the atlas data on record cards and punched cards
• ~1700 species
• Used mechanical equipment for data-processing, using 40-column punched cards
• One of the earliest machine readable geographical databases