>[1675] read the magnetic tapes - This is a problem
>NASA actually has. Reams and reams of data from past missions, stored
>on media that can't be read. The tapes may or may not even be any
>good any more, but even if they are, no working examples of the reader
>hardware survive.

I just ran across this, which is semi-related to the above and mighty cool. (Albeit in a slightly civilization-is-dead kind of way, in that the guy in charge of this amazing project is quoted in a mainstream news article - one which also contains the adjective "ballsy" - as having said "a quarter of a fucking million miles" at one point; I mean, whatever happened to fucking discourse? :)

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