Windows 2000 2 GB file limit

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:36:14AM -0500, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> About 50 miles that way ---> over at the cape - there are tons
> of data tapes with transmissions from the early satellites that
> are of no use as there is no equipment left to read them.

Ah, yes.  The NASA 7-track fiasco.

http://www.chat11.com/Nasa's_Challenging_Problem_Of_Numbers_Stored_In_Special_Formats

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nssdc_news/june96/09_r_post_0696.html

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~l38613dw/website_spring_03/readings/AspectsOfAccess.html

http://www.techworld.com/storage/features/index.cfm?fuseaction=displayfeatures&featureid=30&page=2&pagepos=20

and http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/27847 when his JRUN server starts
working again.

See also

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=NASA+7-track+tape

> Even in the analog world that is a problem. Old video shows
> stored on quad 2" tape - while still readable - have almost
> no machines left that can play them.  The problem is that
> head for the quad-wheels just aren't being made.

http://www.lionlmb.org/quadpark.html

Ampex *said*, back as far as 1989,  that they would continue
manufacturing 2" tape just as long as there were working 2" machines.

Then they turned into Quantegy.

They no longer list the tape, at least on their catalog online.

> Archival storage is so different that what we think of in terms of
> storage. You think in terms of decades and centuries and not months
> and years.

Yeah.  It's... I can't even come up with a verb.

Cheers,
-- jra
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