27 Jan
2023
27 Jan
'23
7:56 p.m.
Hi josh,
Thanks, that's what I was thinking of.
‘NASA lost a large part of the data collected by the Viking Mars
missions because the iron oxide fell off the tapes storing the data.
...
The same affliction that damaged the Viking tapes also wiped out my
personal backup archive; I lost the only copy of my computer work
from the 1970s.’
I first tried DuckDuckGo and Google but I don't think they associate
that site with Cmdr Pike. I did end up there are checking my list of
RSS feeds and tediously expanded all of the right-hand indexes but
I didn't recall the photography connection and so not ‘prints’ either.
--
Cheers, Ralph.
Rob Pike wrote
of magnetic tapes he had which could no longer be
read. The coating had failed off IIRC.
I think you’re referring to this blog post (which I’ve also previously
struggled to find): https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2014/08/prints.html