On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Ed Thierbach via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > > > Why would NASA say “destroy the tapes” ? > > > > If I'm reading the report correctly, the tapes were quite infected with > mold, and probably unreadable. I'd guess it wouldn't be worth the health > hazard to try, especially given NASA's view that there was nothing > historically significant there. > > Still sad to see the data and hardware languish and deteriorate like that, > though. I have some connection to Goddard; my high school was just down > the road, and I knew several people who worked there (maybe still do). > I recently went through the trouble of reading in ~300 floppies in my Rainbow floppy collection... I'm glad I did since I found a couple of mildly interesting things... Warner