Comment Re:No backup?! (Score 3, Informative) 474
Dude, have you heard the Jimi Hendrix remasters?
I spent two years playing thirty-year-old 3/4" video tapes direct to air about a year ago. The labels were falling off but the tapes were fine - less foulups than the newer 1990s format we also used. I'm sure NASA's climate-controlled environment is better than ours.
Yer absolutely right, though, that we should ensure adequate funding for NASA's data archives.
I spent two years playing thirty-year-old 3/4" video tapes direct to air about a year ago. The labels were falling off but the tapes were fine - less foulups than the newer 1990s format we also used. I'm sure NASA's climate-controlled environment is better than ours.
Yer absolutely right, though, that we should ensure adequate funding for NASA's data archives.
