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Originally Posted by MV64
I really don't see the problem with files becoming outdated. Even with NASA, it seems that eventually someone there (if given funds and a specific job to figure it out) could find ways to open those old files.
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The very real problem that NASA has is not that they can't read the files, but that the magnetic tapes, many of which are now 50 years old, are physically degrading, and some of them can no longer be read. A lot of these tapes have been irretrievably lost as a consequence, and that's a tragedy, since this is "history" which is gone forever.