Maybe Dave’s setup would work best because the reading software would not need to be concerned with the format of the tape data.
> On Nov 1, 2025, at 4:08 PM, David Gesswein via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Looks like you have closer options. If they get too many read errors I have a > setup which digitizes analog signals and processes them which may be able > to recover tapes. I'm in MD. > >> On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 01:39:24PM -0400, Guy Fedorkow wrote: >> We may have a half a dozen DECtapes, probably from the PDP-6 era, perhaps >> with ITS with content... >> Is there anyone, preferably in the MIT vicinity, who might have a working >> DECtape drive and be willing to try to read the tapes? >> >> Thanks >> /guy fedorkow >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------
