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

[Michael Hart]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Carl Baltrunas wrote:

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> On Sep 30, 2007, at 3:21 PM, Jason Scott wrote:
>> On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, w1pf wrote:
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>>> 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?

No, but I have a CM-2 in a garage somewhere around here.

;-)

Michael S. Hart
Founder
Project Gutenberg