On 16 Sep 2009 19:48:03 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:57:50 +0100, Stephen wrote:
>
>>>Why's that? (Surely you've heard the story I'm referencing....?)
>>>
>> Well it doesn't seem right for a so called professional to have the
>> hardware but not the s/ware it should be the other way round. :) And no
>> I can't place the story.
>
>NASA had some old data tapes (from the Apollo missions IIRC) that they
>actually didn't have the hardware or software to read any more. They
>finally found someone in Australia (again IIRC) who could read the tapes
>and pull the data off them. :-)
>
I vaguely remember it.
I was thinking of:
The distance to Mars is 80000000 Km not 80000000 miles at 80000000 miles you
crash into mars a while back.
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Regards
Stephen
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