[SCC_Active_Members] Re: old tape drives for Nasa tapes

[Tim O'Reilly]

Gumby --

The folks at the computer museum might be very interested.  I'll cc a  
few folks, and if you're interested, you can follow up with them.

On Aug 20, 2006, at 2:28 AM, The Hackers Conference Program  
Discussion wrote:

> Date: 19 Aug 2006 06:20:13 -0800
> From: DV Henkel-Wallace <gumby at henkel-wallace.org>
> Subject: old tape drives
>
> We've probably all seen the circulating story that NASA may soon
> decommission the Goddard facility that has the only remaining tape
> drives that can read old xmissions from the moon -- and not all of
> _them_ have been copied.
>
> Does the computer museum or some other org (archive.org maybe?) have
> this kind of equipment.  If not, are they trying to get Goddard's old
> stuff to try to keep it running?  Sounds like it would be a good
> resource for the computer museum to provide in general -- the crufty
> old media service.
>
> And does anyone on this list have any background on the story about
> the old videos?  Is it even a story or just a lot of noise?

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