William Donzelli wrote:
>
> > >This is not a new problem - It has appeared in Risks before (RISKS-21.56:
> > >'NASA data from 1970s lost due to "forgotten" file format' for one...), but
> > >is worth keeping in mind.
>
> Urban myth. Every bit of every mission is available on CD-ROM.
I thought I read the Mars lander machine readable data was lost
from 1976? because the format the data was saved in was not documented
and the programmer on the project died, and the computer used was
scrapped.
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Received on Thu Mar 07 2002 - 17:42:46 GMT