In the past, government agencies and research institutions stored data on tapes or hard drives. Sometimes the data was not backed up. Employees today don’t assume data is lost forever if they discover data loss on tapes or hard drives. They simply call John Bordynuik, a data recovery expert.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is an example. From the ’60s to the ’90s, MIT kept its intellectual property on seven- and 9-track reel-to–reel tapes. MIT realized they couldn’t access any tapes, and they were unable to find the data anywhere else. They failed. They failed. It was only in 2004, when MIT contacted Bordynuik that the institution was able recover the valuable data it had on 30,000-pounds of tapes.
Bordynuik, who has an IQ that is higher than Einstein’s, developed his own ovens for baking the tapes. This removed any stickiness. After this, he was able read them without modifying them and to transfer their contents to modern media. Bordynuik read tapes from Harvard University, the United Nations, and the United States Army, in addition to recovering data at MIT.
NASA contracted Bordynuik for recovery “unreadable”Earth science sensor data had been stored on reel-to–reel tapes between 1960 and 2000. NASA was so happy with Bordynuik’s efforts that NASA sole-sourced JBI Inc. in 2008. It trades on OTC as the stock symbol JBII. NASA will continue to award data-recovery work from JBI in the future.
Bordynuik is interested in other industries. His company, Plastic2Oil is moving forward to begin operations. This process converts plastic waste into diesel-like fuel. Pak-It (a JBI subsidiary) also produces a line environmentally-friendly home cleaning products in dissolvable packs. We can also trust the success of his other projects if Bordynuik’s data-recovery work is any indication.
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