Old tape drive proves its worth

Minor correction - most is not online, but it all can be ordered and a tape or CDROM written. I think this is all blown up from a few researchers over the years that have been looking for the original telemetry tapes. At least one group recently has been looking into something with anomalies in signal transit time or something, and the raw telemetry data could be distilled to get some real data. NASA, however, did not keep many of the telemetry tapes - but they never intended to keep them. As soon as able, the tapes were read and decoded into the data they wanted from the probes and eventually made public to the zillions of scientists that were foaming at the mouth for it. Keeping the telemetry tapes would be similar to Jay archiving this list with all the TCP/IP headers and junk. I think RCS/RI has one of the original Viking mission tapes kicking around. -- Will