[rescue] Found NASA computers

[Jeff Cole]

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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