The key is to always keep
a bit ahead of the problem rather than waiting until
the problems such as NASA has with old tapes that
can no longer be read with tape drives that rarely
work in any case.
This is a myth. Every bit of every mission is available on CD-ROM. The
original telemetry tapes are crap, but the data was pulled off them many
years ago.
William Donzelli
aw288 at
osfn.org