[rescue] Found NASA computers

Patrick Giagnocavo xemacs5 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 14 12:04:59 CDT 2017


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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