Hello, one of my favourite subjects. 4mm is DAT tape, I believe. You need to find out if they are VAX or unix tapes. There is a VAX DAT tape drive which I gave to Jeremy Cockcroft at UCL Chemistry last year - it definitely worked about 12 months ago and allowed an early 90's tape to be read. For unix, there is an SGI DAT tape drive in Jeremy's lab (also mine ;-) and there is an O2 in Medicine which still worked about 4 years ago. I think I'm not really allowed into UCL these days as visiting staff, etc, so I probably can't help much myself. I would recommend someone called Jim Cheoros who has a living room full of tape drives and does this sort of thing as a commercial service (dataconversion.co.uk, sorry Charles). You can plead academic poverty and he gives you about 50% discount which comes to about £50-£100 per tape. It sounds like a lot but it's very much less hassle than doing it yourself, esp. in current situation. You will find equivalent services in the US, etc.
Best wishes, Jon Cooper. [email protected] -------- Original Message -------- On 16 Oct 2020, 19:22, Xiong, Jian-Ping wrote: > Sorry for an unrelated request. > > One of my colleagues is trying to fill in the Table 1 from datasets collected > ~20 years ago. Unfortunately, the log files were saved on 4mm data tapes > (2gb/4gb, I believe). We just couldn't find such old computer to read these > tapes in our local areas, so would like to see whether someone in our > community might still keep such old computer with 4mm tape drive and willing > to help us out. The tapes are located in the United States. Thanks! > > The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is > addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail > contains patient information, please contact the Mass General Brigham > Compliance HelpLine at http://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/complianceline . If > the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, > please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail. > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
