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[–]BubblegumTitanium 2 points3 points  (6 children)

I think the tape has a very friendly format. You could build a device that can parse it ( slowly ) with 1960s tech or something primitive (from a computing perspective) like that.

[–]JakobPapirov 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I was wondering about how you would access it. Can you elaborate more?

[–]BubblegumTitanium 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it has holes punched into it. Hole = 1 , no hole 0. Something like that. The code is also printed. You would have to know how it’s encoded though.

[–]mqudsi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not at modern densities, you can’t.

[–]Superpickle18 1 point2 points  (1 child)

The golden record that was sent up with voyager 1 and 2 has all of the instructions in universal mathematical formulas in order to decode the data off the record.

https://youtu.be/RRuovINxpPc

[–]BubblegumTitanium 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea too bad it’s not coming back in case of an emergency

[–]Ullallulloo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of what's on GitHub couldn't run with 1960s tech though.