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Re: Old LS dump tapes
- To: Mark Sirota <http://www.sirota.org/~mark>
- Subject: Re: Old LS dump tapes
- From: Farrell Woods <http://www.comcast.net/~Farrell.Woods>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:34:57 -0400
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Mark Sirota wrote:
> About 10 years ago I tried to find an 800 bpi 9-track tape drive at Penn,
> but failed. Plenty of 1600 bpi drives still around at that time, but no
> 800's. Anyone got a way to read one of these? Anyone want to guess
> whether a 23 year old tape would still be readable?
Yipes.
In my experience though most of the 1600bpi or better drives could in fact
read 800 bpi tapes. Some could be twaddled to write at this density too
(e.g. via appropriate mode-select commands.) The bigger challenge was
to find something that could read 7-track (as opposed to "modern" 9-track)
tapes. But I've not even seen a working 1/2-inch tape drive since, oh, the
early 90's.
Best of luck!
-- Farrell