> Anyone know how to contact them? :-) I wonder if they ever actually asked NASA?
Folks, EVERY BIT OF EVERY MISSION is available for the archive. Some of it is online, the rest you must ask for, and they will make a tape or CD-ROM. The data - all the data - keeps moving from one format to the other. I do not know how they keep it now, but it used to be on DEC WORMs maybe ten years ago. I know at that time they were retiring the DEC system. The best that the sensible astronomers can guess is that some researchers want the original telemetry tapes - the old analog tape decks that recorded whatever the receivers tuned to the spacecraft were picking up. NASA never really intended for the telemetry data to be seriously archived, as it would be silly to do so once the data was pulled off and verified. It would be like archiving IBM-MAIN, with all the IP headers, checksums and junk. Pointless, except for some really obscure research one might do concerning net traffic or something. Oh, and the Census people also have ALL of their computer data as well. A rumour that just will not die... -- Will ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
