'Correspondence re "Junk"'

Date:
1980
Reference:
PP/CRI/H/6/13/8
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: 'Correspondence re "Junk"'. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 9819S School of Medicine Department of Neurological Surgery 28 April 1980 Drs. Orgel and Crick: Enjoyed your junk DNA review in Nature . Several useful analogies occur to me: 1 often send a 50 page document down for xeroxing, even though I really only need copies of about 15 pages of it, here and there. The time that it would take to scissor it up and do the pasteup job is simply more expensive than the dollar of xeroxing that I would save. On a larger scale, if one were microfilming a university library to send to a developing country, it would probably be cheaper to copy ythe whole thing, junk and all, than to spend the necessary man-years required to deside what to copy. I'm sure that computer centers making backup tapes probably have the same philosophy. I suppose that I am sensitized to this, having just tried to clean out my reprint files! Regards, William H. Calvin