10 Nov
2008
10 Nov
'08
4:36 a.m.
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Antonio Carlini 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!
Why do they call it a "tape recorder". To me, that implies a device for
recording audio or video.
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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