Chrysler was an early innovator in using computers to aid processes.
This is slightly off topic, but a fun video showing these systems in use in the mid 1950's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6L0ykX9lPU&ab_channel=KingRoseArchives

So, if the paper files, which could be identified on sight as useful information didn't survive, do you think a bunch of mag tapes that look like Sanskrit carvings would do any better? And if saved, if they were piled in boxes in a leaky roofed warehouse for all these years, would they still be able to provide data? Try again.
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