From: Leo Broukhis (leob@mailcom.com)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2008 - 02:04:05 CST
I've found an interesting piece of data
(http://www.sci-lib.net/index.php?showtopic=4468 - in Russian, date d
November 2007) about the Soviet "Buran" program:
A significant part of the technical information about the flight is
inaccessble to today's researchers as it is recorded on the magnetic
tapes for BESM-6, of which none are still working [there is one
sitting at the London National Museum of Science and Industry packed
in crates for 15 years - L.B.] It may be possible to restore some
information about the historical flight [its purportedly automatic
landing is still a point of pride for the Russian space program -
L.B.] from the ACPU-128 printouts that contain excerpts of the
on-board and ground telemetry.
When someone has the time, money, and digital-archeologic interest to
try to read those tapes (or to OCR the printouts - yeah, right!), or
when the London museum finally gets to it, having the SUBSCRIPT TEN in
Unicode will come in handy.
Leo
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