Re: nassa tapes destroyed but the family left to dispose of the computer?

2017-08-15 Thread Eric Christopherson via cctalk 
On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 7:19 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk  wrote:

> https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kzakkn/nasa-
> destroyed-hundreds-of-mystery-tapes-found-in-a-dead-mans-
> basement-apollo-era
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> well, a metal scrapper contacted NASA, so I would imagine with him.
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> at least we know now a little more about where the FOIA request came from
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I haven't seen anything in the coverage about what the intent of the FOIA
request was. Does anyone know?


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> On 8/13/17 4:01 PM, Ed via cctalk wrote:
> > wonder where it  ended up?
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Eric Christopherson

Re: nassa tapes destroyed but the family left to dispose of the computer?

2017-08-13 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk 
On 08/13/2017 04:01 PM, Ed via cctalk wrote:
> wonder where it  ended up?

Dunno--but NASA/JPL have tons of this sort of stuff.  One problem is
that much of the data is presented with no context.  Usually, the tapes
are from some employee who didn't bother to label his or her tapes,
other than with an inventory number and their name, so even the hardware
that produced the stuff is unknown.  You find yourself in the position
knowing that some program must have created the data sets, but what they
represent is undecipherable.  Just a bunch of bits.

I'm trying to assist the digital archivist at JPL to pick out only tapes
with clearly labeled contents--and yes, much of this stuff goes back
more than 50 years.

There are, apparently,  hundreds of boxes of these things stashed away.

--Chuck

Re: nassa tapes destroyed but the family left to dispose of the computer?

2017-08-13 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk 
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kzakkn/nasa-destroyed-hundreds-of-mystery-tapes-found-in-a-dead-mans-basement-apollo-era

well, a metal scrapper contacted NASA, so I would imagine with him.

at least we know now a little more about where the FOIA request came from



On 8/13/17 4:01 PM, Ed via cctalk wrote:
> wonder where it  ended up?

nassa tapes destroyed but the family left to dispose of the computer?

2017-08-13 Thread Ed via cctalk 
wonder where it  ended up?
 
 
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