31. "RE: (S68) S5DS03 Goodbye & Hello"
In response to message #0
>[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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