[rescue] Found NASA computers

[Richard]

so given that the report and correspondence is from 2015/2016 I suppose
it is safe to assume that the tapes and drives are probably long
gone.....

the photos of the "Electrical Engineering Company of California" and the
Control Data 163 magnetic tape system are cool though

On Sat, 15 Jul 2017, at 04:20 AM, Jeff Cole wrote:
> NASA had an archivist do an analysis on a number of the tapes. Of the
> ones
> they could analyze, they determined that the data wasn't anything they
> didn't already have.
> 
> Read the full NASA OIG report at
> https://oig.nasa.gov/FOIA/O-GO-16-0061-S.pdf
> 
> On Jul 14, 2017 14:14, "John Hudak" <jjhudak at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hmmmm, tapes from 1970 (or earlier), probably 50 yo...damp basement.  I'd
> > bet the binder is pretty much disintegrated.  The act of runing them over a
> > tape head would peel away what ever magnetic media was there.  One could
> > respray a fix onto the tapes, but would have to hope the magnetic media
> > didn't come off when pulling apart the tape.
> >
> > Back in the day when I looked into 'archive tapes' the best I'd get from a
> > company was 50 years, conditioned environment....
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo <xemacs5 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Why destroy the tapes? While mould is bad for you, they don't have a
> > > way to clean tapes?  Seems like someone was kind of lazy.  They could
> > > have donated the tapes to a computer society that might have tried to
> > > recover the info for free...
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Dan Duncan <danduncan at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > >> Is anyone else thinking "this could be my legacy?"
> > > >>
> > > >       It could be worse: they could unearth your legacy and not know
> > > > what those mysterious machines were because they do not look like
> > > > ipads (or whatever will come in 60 years from now).
> > > >
> > > >> Scrap dealer finds Apollo-era NASA computers in dead engineerb s
> > > basement
> > > >>
> > > >> https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/nasa-computer-
> > > engineer-basement/
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