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Maybe just send an email. If someone has the data and a moment, they might send it, and NASA seems to encourage an engaged public.

Exactly. But surely someone has done this already? What are we missing here?

(I think the data format for one of the early landers, Viking perhaps, was lost, but didn't someone figure it out?)

Which project was it that found the old tapes and reversed how to get that data? I seem to remember them being in an old fast food building or something. It is however entirely possible I'm confusing stories together.???

You are probably thinking of the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) that was housed in an old McDonalds

https://moonviews.com

I believe the same people were involved in the ISEE-3 Reboot Project

https://sservi.nasa.gov/articles/isee-3-reboot-project/

Yes, the McMoons location is what I was thinking. Thanks for helping ensure that I'm not crazy. at least in this particular instance! So this time, the voices were not leading me astray ;-)

This seems to have some more clues: https://www.liquisearch.com/voyager_program/telemetry

Although searching for the formats mostly yields copies of the same text on different websites