[Year 12 IT Apps] Hard disk & SSD data recovery

[Mark KELLY]

I'd gladly pay to ensure Adam Sandler's movies were lost for all time.

The BBC also had a brain-fade years ago and wiped many historic radio
recordings so they could re-use tapes, including episodes of The
Goodies, Dr Who etc!

D'Oh!

On 27 August 2012 08:47, ken price <kenjprice at gmail.com> wrote:
> Might be timely to mention this one -
> http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/07/16/us-nasa-tapes-idUSTRE56F5MK20090716
> - about the video data recordings of the first moon landing. You'd possibly
> expect NASA to be pretty good with backups, especially for something like an
> event of this magnitude.
>
> "NASA admitted in 2006 that no one could find the original video recordings
> of the July 20, 1969, landing.  Since then, Richard Nafzger, an engineer at
> NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, who oversaw television
> processing at the ground-tracking sites during the Apollo 11 mission, has
> been looking for them. The good news is he found where they went. The bad
> news is they were part of a batch of 200,000 tapes that were degaussed --
> magnetically erased -- and re-used to save money."
>
> I've also heard an interview with one of Australia's first female TV
> comediennes, who indicated that only about 15 seconds of video recording
> remain of her lengthy TV career - the rest was dumped to save space. A
> number of other historic Australian recordings suffered the same fate:
>
> "Sadly it appears that, like so many ABC programs of the period, not all of
> Aunty Jack has survived. It has long been rumoured that some episodes fell
> prey to the ABC's infamous 'economy drives' and that these tapes were
> erased. This shameful act of cultural vandalism saw many priceless programs
> from the '60s and '70s erased simply so that tapes could be recycled to save
> money on buying blank tape. According to Bob Ellis' 1999 Sydney Morning
> Herald article "The Lost Picture Show", many important ABC programs have
> been destroyed or substantially lost. Apart from Aunty Jack, the casualties
> include most of the 1969-71 episodes of MONDAY CONFERENCE, most of the
> in-studio videotaped links, introductions and studio interviews from THIS
> DAY TONIGHT, most of the first two years of COUNTDOWN, and all but five of
> the 166 episodes of CERTAIN WOMEN." http://www.milesago.com/tv/auntyjack.htm
>
> Similar losses of source materials (again, video recordings rather than
> digital data) happened with the original Doctor Who TV programs:
>
> "The Engineering Department had no mandate to archive the programme
> videotapes they held, although they would not normally be wiped or junked
> until the relevant production department or BBC Enterprises had indicated
> that they had no further use for the tapes.[7] The first Doctor Who master
> videotapes to be junked were those for the serial The Highlanders, which
> were erased on 9 March 1967, a mere two months after Episode 4's original
> transmission.[6] Further erasing and junking of Doctor Who master videotapes
> by the Engineering Department continued into the 1970s. Eventually every
> single master videotape of the programme's first 253 episodes (1963–1969)
> was destroyed or wiped, with the final 1960s mastertapes to be erased being
> those for the 1968 serial Fury from the Deep, which were authorised for
> wiping in late 1974.[7]" "
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_missing_episodes
>
> So as well as accidental data loss, there is a very real risk of intentional
> deletion by humans as part of our "tidying the nest " behaviour.
>
> kp
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Here is a horror story from Pixar about ToyStory 2. Worth sharing with
>> your students
>>      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL_g0tyaIeE
>>
>> Regards Roland
>>
>> PS: Don't laugh. That backup in the kitchen may be just what your
>> organisation needs.
>>
>>
>
> --
> Dr Ken Price MACS ACCE Professional Associate.
> President, TASITE
>
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