[SPG_Active_Members] Attempt to recover NASA Moon dust data tapes

[Randall Neff]

"An archiving error by NASA has meant 173 data tapes have sat in Perth
for almost 40 years, holding information about lunar dust that could
be vital in expanding science's understanding of the moon. But after
almost four decades, a donation from a Sydney computer society looks
set to breathe fresh life into a long-neglected field of lunar
science. ... These were the only active measurements of moon dust made
during the Apollo missions, and no-one thought it was important. ...
Mr Holmes has kept the tapes in a climate-controlled room since then,
and it was only when he stumbled upon a 1960s IBM729 Mark 5 tape drive
at the Australian Computer Museum that his company had the ability to
unlock the information."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/10/2415393.htm

Randall.