Plenty of old drives at ESRF, for that purpose. If you don't find any
other way, I could always read them there (the ESRF is "in my backyard")
and burn the data to DVD for shipping (or upload to megaupload - but our
gov't is hunting down people who use such services, they think
megaupload and other such services are only for making illegal use of
the internet such as transferring ripped commercial DVD's or CD's).
Fred.
VAN RAAIJ , MARK JOHAN wrote:
did you try looking if there is a company offering data recovery
services from these kind of tapes?
if there is, there may not be a need to buy a tape drive yourself.
Mark
Quoting "Min, Xiaoshan":
> Dear CCP4 community,
>
> We have a few datasets that reside in tapes (Sony QG-112M 8 mm tape
> and Maxell DDS-2 4 mm tape). I have been searching the internet for
> tape drives ( and cable) but haven't found anything. Does anyone
> know where we can purchase compatible tape drives for these lovely
> tapes? Or if you have a spare working set sitting in your graphic
> room and would like to sell them, that will be wonderful. Thanks.
>
>
> Xiaoshan Min. Ph.D.
> Molecular Structure
> Amgen San Francisco
> 1120 Veterans Blvd.
> South San Francisco, CA 94080
>
>
Mark J van Raaij
Laboratorio M-4
Dpto de Estructura de Macromoléculas
Centro Nacional de Biotecnología - CSIC
c/Darwin 3, Campus Cantoblanco
28049 Madrid
tel. 91 585 4616
email: [email protected]
