In each report, the objects are sorted in ascending order of NORAD catalogue number. The first of the each object's elsets is the most recent epoch; the remainder are unsorted. After about 1990, I received a weekly report listing the latest elset of each payload and rocket body, and a small number of debris objects requested by myself and other recipients. The format was 21.6 x 27.9 cm, portrait, printed on both sides. Objects were listed in order of ascending NORAD catalogue number. The reports are full-sized photocopies of laser-printer output. Most of the data probably is machine-readable. On disk, I have all but a few of my earliest weekly xxx.n2l files, which date back to early 1990. These files include hobbyist-produced elsets of many objects for which NORAD does not release elements. Also, I have many of TS Kelso's weekly tle files, from the late 1980's to early 1996. Finally, there are many SGP quality pseudo-NORAD format elsets in my e-mail correspondence from the late 1980's to the present. I have long believed that the paper archives should be converted to electronic form, but obviously this will be a huge project. It occurs to me that NASA/OIG might have at least some of the past 39 years of orbital history on disk or tape, in which case, perhaps they would be able to assist us. As I recall, NASA/GSFC does maintain a permanent, comprehensive archive of data transmitted by NASA's scientific earth satellites. Perhaps they have seen fit to include an orbital history of all space objects. Perhaps NASA/GSFC could become a host site of the Grand Archive. We should at least ask the question. I am willing to do so. If NASA cannot assist us, then we will have to consider how best to convert the paper archives to electronic form. Obviously this would include both image scanning and manual entry. We may conclude that it is not necessary to electronically archive every single paper elset; perhaps we can sample them at intervals that guarantee some minimum ephemeris precision between successive epochs. I like the idea of e-mailing the data to a designated site(s). On-line access and CD-ROM distribution are excellent ideas. Ted Molczan