[Milsurplus] [MRCA] Lunar Photos

[J. Forster]

I still have the capability of reading punch cards, reading and punching
paper tape, and 7 track mag tape. Some of the older mag tape is flakeing
badly and won't be readable for much longer.

-John

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> Platforms come and go at alarming speed these days. Not uncommon to see
> pallets of tapes being sold at Wallops or Goddard for next to nothing. The
> last couple years there have been almost endless lots of D1 digital video
> cassettes, a huge expensive non compressed digital format for analog NTSC
> Here at the university we just pulled some one inch C format video tapes
> we had from the nineties and found that all the local TV stations no
> longer have that format and am now looking at trying to find a playback
> deck for that format. We still have a working 16 MM projector and am
> surprised by how many have come and wanted us to transfer from that to
> video. The problem is not that there is not the media out there but the
> equipment to transfer the old media to any current format is the issue.
> In the last five or ten years I have been working with old DEC computers
> at home, maybe more then with radios. The thing that occupies the most
> time is rebuilding drives and copying media with one of the largest
> ongoing projects being transferring old files to more modern platforms and
> getting modern systems to be able to push software to old systems. That's
> the big project around the shop these days.
>
> Ray F
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