10 Nov
2008
10 Nov
'08
9:41 a.m.
Golly, why use an IBM pinch-roller drive (I remember
the 729-IV on
S/360 gear) when a CDC vacuum-capstan drive would be far gentler on
the tape? A modern streamer might be gentler still.
Just curious about the selection of the drive.
Best yet, they could just ask NASA for the data. EVERY BIT OF EVERY
MISSION is archived and (mostly) available online. Some of the more
obscure data still needs to be pulled of WORMs. Mike at RCS/RI says
DEC WORM drives.
I wish people would just bury this damn "lost NASA data" crap in the
lunar dust...
--
Will