Who wants to help read a Saturn V core stack?

[Jim Battle]

Daniel Seagraves wrote:
> Those of you with experience reading cores, we need your help in reading 
> out a LVDC core stack.
> If successful, this will likely be the only example of the LVDC flight 
> software left in existence.
> 
> Please see http://www.ibiblio.org/mscorbit/mscforum/index.php?topic=1891.0

That could be very tricky if you attempt to read it out -- reading core 
is destructive, so if rig up an interface and you don't capture the data 
the first time, you might not get a second chance.

People on this list have talked about some film that changes 
polarization or color or something in the presence of magnetic fields. 
Core is orders of magnitude larger than the bit domains of floppy disks, 
so using such a film to read out the core state non-destructively seems 
like a good idea.

I haven't read the thread linked to above, so maybe this is already 
under consideration.