7 Mar
2002
7 Mar
'02
9:42 a.m.
William Donzelli wrote:
I thought I read the
Mars lander machine readable data was lost
>This is not a new problem - It has appeared
in Risks before (RISKS-21.56:
>'NASA data from 1970s lost due to "forgotten" file format' for
one...), but
>is worth keeping in mind.
Urban myth. Every bit of every mission is available on CD-ROM. from 1976? because the format the data was saved in was
not documented
and the programmer on the project died, and the computer used was
scrapped.
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