On 16 Sep 2009 19:48:03 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> 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.

-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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