Antonio Carlini wrote: > http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/10/2415393.htm > > An IBM729 Mark 5 tape drive grabbed the data for NASA. > > I presume that this implies NASA had tried and failed to find such a > drive via IBM? I doubt it. If you throw enough money at them, they'll *build you a new one*. Peace... Sridhar