Dave's Blog

NASA held a press conference today,  on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
They took great pains to explain exactly how the video from the moon was converted and relayed around the world. And they attempted to explain how the original data tapes of the slowscan data had been lost, and probably erased. [...]

My first exposure to videotape was in 1967 while attending Dobyns-Bennett High School in Kingsport, Tennessee.   The city had just completed a new state-of-the-art building with pie-shaped classrooms, ramps instead of stairwells, and closed-circuit TV monitors in every room. Finding my way through the usual hallway shuffle between classes I happened past a half-open doorway [...]