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Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 06:44:24 JST Angry Sun
@Aether @wizardmanperson I can read government/corporatese and basically what it said was "I don't have the equipment on hand to read the tape and I don't have (and will not make the effort to acquire) the authorization or funds to mail this tape to a facility that can to fulfill your request. I have attached a xerox of the outside of the tape." - :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: likes this.
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lampshader (wizardmanperson@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 06:44:25 JST lampshader
@Aether for real? It has to be more to this that just the reading device :02_laugh: -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 06:44:25 JST Aether ???
@wizardmanperson There may be something classified on the tape.
More likely the NSA has just disregarded anything from before 2000. I was doing a consulting job recently IRL with a client where I needed records from the early 80's and found out that they had destroyed anything from before 1994 long ago.
The NSA may be the same, anything nonessential from that era is just disregarded and this is one of them. -
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Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 06:44:26 JST Aether ???
The NSA has found the tape of computing pioneer Admiral Grace Hopper's 1982 lecture, but says it lacks the ability to read it.
muckrock.com/news/archives/2024/jul/10/grace-hopper-lost-lecture-found-nsa/
It's an one inch Ampex reel-to-reel video tape, which is hardly uncommon. It took me two minutes of searching to find a commercial service that will convert an entire tape to digital format for $150.