Re: [ARSCLIST] Wired: One Giant Screwup for Mankind

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you get into this topic, don't miss the Quicktime VR pans from the moon landing photos:

http://www.panoramas.dk/moon/mission-apollo.html

Amazing. The Apollo 17 panorama really hit me -- look at that little rover and astronaut in that 
desolate place so far from home. Those moon landings were quite a thing to pull off.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard L. Hess" <arclists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 11:17 AM
Subject: [ARSCLIST] Wired: One Giant Screwup for Mankind


> 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
>
> Richard L. Hess                   email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Aurora, Ontario, Canada       (905) 713 6733     1-877-TAPE-FIX
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> Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.