collectors like felix couldn't old hardware like this would disappear pretty swiftly with disastrous consequences. valuable data is irretrievable without the right system. unusual here are the data storage medium itself of course has to be intact. then you need a device that sable to read that medium push you need an operating system that works with that device. despite all these difficulties the team at the computer museum and generally able to reconstruct data believed to be lost forever. i'm placing the punched tape in the device every line is one byte on the one hand it's printed out here on the other it's being transferred onto