On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 04:39:53PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > I wonder what NASA did for their deep-space probes like Voyager? The > recent stuff seems to be disposable (e.g. how long will this one last?), > but Voyager was meant to keep on running. They used some sort of gold > pressed record for ETI to read but I wonder what they used for the > computer's OS and data-storage in-between downloads?
A few years ago I hear that they had stored a lot of their early data on magnetic tapes, which were deteriorating and in need ot copying to new media, but that there was no funding available to do this. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
