Evans was at her desk in the 1970s when a clerk walked into her office, asking what he should do with a truck-sized heap of data tapes that had been released from storage.
"What do you usually do with things like that?" she asked.
"We usually destroy them," he replied.
More: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-lunar22-2009mar22,0,1783495,full.story
...and some commentary on archiving digital data:
See http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6199