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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Datamation, the trade magazine, has been in continuous publication since 1957. That would be an ideal place to look for early uses of the term "archive."
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">I'm not sure whether the paper magazine has ever been digitized and made searchable - does anyone know?</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Ditto for <i>Communications of the ACM</i> and
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<div>I've had a couple of additional backchannel responses to this (thank you) but nothing terribly decisive. Is the question too diffuse, I wonder? Too obscure? How would one go about running something like this down? What would be some good industry publications
to check to try to track the emergence of "archive" as a computer systems term?</div>
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<div>OED doesn't offer a usage in relation to computing or data before 1978, but this seems late to me; certainly Wang was using the language of an "archive" disk for much of the 1970s.
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<div>I'm trying to find early exemplars of the use of the word "archive" in computer systems contexts, whether as a noun to denote an element of computer architecture (i.e., the archive disk or archive tape) or as a verb, i.e. "I've archived those files."</div>
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<div>Examples might include the TAR ("Tape ARchive") format, Wang's nomenclature of an "archive disk" in its systems, and Gmail's early mantra, "Archive, Don't Delete."
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<div>I'd love to run down some early instances of this sort of thing, which I assume goes back to the mainframe era.<br>
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