The agency is sitting on a piece of computer history, but won’t release it because it doesn’t have the right kind of tape player.
There are two reels of old tape buried in the National Security Agency’s archives that contain a landmark piece of computer science history. There’s a problem though, theThe tapes are a recording of a lecture from computer science legend Admiral Grace Hopper. Hopper was a U.S. Navy officer andwho helped develop FLOW-MATIC, the first programming language that used English keywords instead of numbers.
The NSA’s excuse? It didn’t have anything to play the tapes back, couldn’t listen to them, and therefore couldn’t clear them for release. “When the search was conducted, our office reached out to the organization that would have the tape you requested if it still exists. We were informed that although there are some older video tapes that are potentially responsive, they are on a format that NSA no longer has the ability to view or digitize,” the NSA FOIA office said in a follow-up.
“Been trying to connect folks,” he said. “But not sure if anything concrete has or will come of it yet.”
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