data recovery specialist in new york. a man by the name of andy. . >> my name andy stevens electrical engineer, i attend mit and colombia to get a phone call out of the blue he said i have some tapes that were -- from a voice recorder he explained he had taken these tapes to a couple different outfits nobody had been able to replay the tapes. >> ric had machine shipped to andy's lab he immediately got the to work, he began by recovering the data on damaged magnetic tapes with hopes of retrieving the lost calls. >> this is an media store recorder, it would record on to tapes this is what is called a dds3, data tape. and, it will hold several thousands hours of recorded