Thursday, November 13, 2008

Reading Klingon - that's hard

And so is finding the machinery to read data tapes from the 1960s: Obsolete 1960s tape drive could help crack lunar mysteries


(Via The Canadian Archivist Blog)

1 comment:

  1. James HanleyDecember 4, 2008 at 3:05 PM

    "An archiving error by NASA has meant 173 tapes holding data from the missions have sat in a facility in Perth, Australia,"

    That's quite an error!

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