...of sunk costs.

way too early for Zip.
8" and maybe 5" floppies.

They couldn't type it in and build it as they go thru the code? It can't be that big.
Using OCR seems half ass and lazy,
as if the motivation for those in charge was only to generate some executive PR hype.

Good luck.
Hope you find your beaver.

Does it hurt when you write like that?
All non-perportional and everything?
Seems like it would hurt.

I assume the interested parties are doing what they wish and scooping up everything in some form.
regardless of law or warrant, inadmissible or not.

Whatever they haven't been able to index and archive is considered a fault to be remedied.
The law is just an impediment if a case reaches the courts.

Won't they just run six of them?
You would.

..at the bottom of a whiskey bottle.

It's where management seems to be focusing its efforts.

Will they be showing that kind of stuff they churn out?
Will there be other people there?
Yes?
We'll pass.

In my first computery job, I worked at the company that made the majority of resistance (spot) welding transformers for the 'big three'. Heavy, greasy 80lb blocks of water-cooled copper and aluminum.
Stanley VanAntwerp, their wise and eccentric head of engineering and design told me this:

Ford, GM, and Chrysler don't make cars. They make factories. That's the product.
The line, the dies, the welding fixtures, the service parts, all of that, for the required years in service.
That's the hard part. That's the automotive industry.

Stan also told me "An engineer with a closed mind is useless".

Not a surprise, seeing their lack of attention attention to detail.
Right now, on their home page under "We Make Getting Back on the Road Simple"
there's 4 testimonials, all with placeholder text.

I'd bet their automated billing for $75/mo is running just fine.
Parasites.

You should be able to flee to a friendly country to evade extradition,
launder your cash, pay off the congressmen, and get the surgery,
in under half a year, easy.

People are fuckin' stupid.

I, Steve Wozniak, did not participate in the theft of the BASIC. It was funny to me to see others enjoying doing this. I had never used BASIC myself, at that time, only the more-scientific languages like Fortran, Algol, and PL-1, and several assembly languages. I sniffed the air and sensed that you needed BASIC to sell computers into homes, because of the book 101 Games in BASIC. I loved games and saw games as the key. It was the [MS] BASIC that inspired me to write a BASIC interpreter for my 6502 processor, in order to have a more useful computer.

Instead of prompt-building a world, use Second Life as the modeler.

It has a camera, geometry, and metadata to model off of, and tons of source world already built.
The hard parts; hosting, navigation, scripting, network, and money are already implemented.
Best, there's an experienced user community that gets it, and is willing to pay for it.