Rescue of data from Pioneer 10 & 11 tapes at JPL needed.

I've been in the archive building where tapes are stored at JPL. There was a problem with a water pipe burst in the past, which some tapes were exposed to. Also, from age, some are having oxide come off the substrate, and are probably unrecoverable quite a long time before this problem was discovered. I don't know of any imminent scrapping of anything there, does anyone have any real data on what that statement means? I am sure that they have equipment that doesn't work, and I am sure that things may have been scrapped long before there was a good effort to match computer to tape and do all conservation necessary, but they have an agressive program to move everything to a cd rom type media format, and the have very good conservation efforts on that archive in the future. Jim CRC wrote: