Lazarus Archive · LZ-40660

Radio telescope observations, North Glendale, 1974–1981

North Glendale Radio Observatory, 1974–1981. Research data for the PDP-11.

Description

Raw observations from a university radio telescope, recorded to tape and never fully analysed.

Provenance

Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Greenport Bay. The disks had been stored beside a loudspeaker, and one track on each was weak. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
51b42d3c4b7e0ef6d4980c83296e6d0f7fcf25fcaa7683421a03a03d0e7b8260
Last verified
Oct 21, 2026, by Vigil
Migrated to
CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
Kept in cold storage in Vancouver

Access

Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. Copies may be taken away.

Reading-room copies are migrated to CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.

Cite as: North Glendale Radio Observatory, Radio telescope observations, North Glendale, 1974–1981 (1974–1981). Lazarus Archive, LZ-40660.

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