Luigi Vendittelli
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I can't remember which one it is.
Anyway, and they had the Ed Teller tape from 1982 when he was at Los Alamos.
And she contacted them saying, is that the actual tape?
And the contact sent a picture of the tape and a picture of a file folder that was on the same shelf, on this metal shelf in the archives.
And they said, it's a U-matic tape and it has not played since that day.
It's been sitting there since 1982, June 28th, July 28th, I think, or June 28th, I can't remember now, 1982.
We're like, you're kidding.
And we said, are we allowed to, they said, we could digitize it for you.
There's a cost to doing that.
It's a couple hundred dollars.
I immediately said, send them the money.
You know, like I go, go.
And so she says, okay.
And she goes, if you pay an extra $100, they'll do it faster.
Pay an extra $100.
Like, just go.
And I said, ask them if we could use it, right?
And they came back and they said...
Good news.
It's public domain.