[ARSCLIST] Wired: One Giant Screwup for Mankind

["Richard L. Hess" <arclists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wired Magazine has written about the lost Apollo 11 tapes -- again. 
Still not found.

This is a good summary, though the last several paragraphs repeat at the end.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/nasa.html

This would most likely be an Ampex instrumentation recorder.

It would take some work, and the timebase would be less stable, but 
these tapes could probably be played on a cobbled-together system 
using an audio recorder. The timebase stability of the Ampex 
instrumentation recorders was better since the heads were right at 
the capstan (which was grooved).

Cheers,

Richard

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