The Sense/Net Library
Six hundred and fifty-two feet under Kansas
Since 1994 the company’s masters have been kept in galleries cut into a bed of rock salt beneath Ashworth, Kansas, where the temperature has not moved from 68 degrees in living memory. The Library holds every recording Sense/Net has made, the catalogues it has bought, and a reading room above ground that any researcher can book.
Copies of retired products and out-of-commerce titles are deposited with Lazarus, the digital preservation programme, so that they can still be opened when the machines that played them are gone.