[inforoots] Re: Spacecraft Pioneer and it's data on old media problem

[Carl Baltrunas]

On Sep 30, 2007, at 3:21 PM, Jason Scott wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, w1pf wrote:
>
>> First off, there is nowhere NEAR enough information in that letter 
>> (or, as far as I can tell, anywhere else on the site) to attract 
>> those of us who have the technical zotz to really help out.
>
> I'm coming from way out field here, but I read this more as a "please 
> people, we're doing good work over here saving history, so we just 
> need donations to help us continue the work we're doing." It seems 
> more about getting people to understand the history at stake and 
> donate, not about seeking actual technical help.

It could be... I'd have to agree with that.

I'm not a rocket scientist, but just from my contacts at the CHM and a 
few former jobs, I know enough people who could do the entire job, 
including the data analysis.  I'm sure the good people at JPL and NASA 
are not that enamored with "new" projects that they could not find the 
technical expertise needed.

And, why use old iron, when an emulator, ie. friends at SIMH or (if it 
is a DEC-10) KLH-10, can run circles around the old iron without the 
need for massive parallel processors.

A terrible side note: Does anyone have a Cray or Connections machine 
emulator that runs faster than the originals?

-Carl