[Milsurplus] [MRCA] Lunar Photos

[Raymond Cote]

Ray for what it's worth I have a couple 1 inch decks tucked away on a 40 foot container. I Will Jeep tour mame on a hot liste when i get to unload it. I don't know when that will be but I will work on one of my containers this summer 
Ray. 
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

-George Orwell

> On Apr 25, 2014, at 11:42, "J. Forster" <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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