I don't think it's a slam-dunk that it's not relevant. I wouldn't mind having another 10-12 years of results for my pet methods, and I think I could make the necessary mental adjustments in terms of how heavily to weight them. I've always wondered if there might not be huge trends out there whose wavelength is so long that we can't notice them with our pathetic little 19-year databases. Also, just about everyone who has a DB starts with 1982-1983, since that's when the online data services started up, so anyone who finds something in pre-1982 data would have the field to himself.
That said, I certainly don't see enough value to spend not only the time collecting the paper data, but the humongous effort of datapunching 12 years of logs.
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