10 Nov
2008
10 Nov
'08
4:44 a.m.
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On 10/11/2008, Antonio Carlini <arcarlini at iee.org> wrote:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/10/2415393.htm
An IBM729 Mark 5 tape drive grabbed the data for NASA.
I presume that this implies NASA had tried and failed to find such a
drive via IBM?
Good to see that some old tapes retain their data!
After reading the article, I get the impression that it is at the
stage of, we have some tapes that were recorded with data that have
been kept in controlled conditions for 2 out of the last 35 years, and
we have located a drive designed to read the tapes. If there is still
data on the tape, and it can be read by the drive - that is something
we will find out in mid Jan!
Simon
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