"An archiving error by NASA has meant 173 data tapes have sat in Perth for almost 40 years, holding poop about lunar dust that could be vital in expanding science's sensitivity of the moon. But after almost four decades, a charity from a Sydney mainframe society looks set to breathe fresh life into a long-neglected field of lunar science. ... These were the only active measurements of moon dust made during the Apollo missions, and no-one thought it was important. ... Mr Holmes has kept the tapes in a climate-controlled room since then, and it was only when he stumbled upon a 1960s IBM729 Mark 5 tape drive at the Australian microcomputer Museum that his company had the ability to unlock the information."

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