I was looking for a YouTube clip of the SpaceX Starship launch for today’s Because It’s Friday, when I came across this much more interesting video. Pay particular attention to see how 50 year old data storage works.
I thought the need for what would be considered outdated technology skills and how this 1970’s state of the art technology is still working was really fascinating.
(Sorry for the VPN advert, the YouTube channel has to mkae it’s money – however I do not use that VPN service but another which after a number of years of use I have found very secure. I am writing this article, in a hotel room on their open WiFi network connected through my CyberGhost VPN. See the article in the Further Reading section below.)
This is an excellent follow-up to a previous Voyager article:
Are you Christmas Shopping for a Geek?
With Christmas coming I have written an article looking at suitable presents for all those people who also found this video interesting.
Have a good weekend.
Clive
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
Further Reading
It is a shame to let the SpaceX research go to waste so here are two of the source articles I was going to use.
SpaceX l Starship rocket booster explodes after blast off – YouTube
and some context for that…
Sorry, doubters: Starship actually had a remarkably successful flight | Ars Technica
