Thanks for the info. Will forward it to my colleague. Best, JP From: Jon Cooper <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: Jon Cooper <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Friday, October 16, 2020 at 5:13 PM To: "Xiong, Jian-Ping" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Looking for help to read 4mm data tape
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]<mailto:[email protected]> -------- Original Message -------- On 16 Oct 2020, 19:22, Xiong, Jian-Ping < [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: External Email - Use Caution 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 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 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/
