I've got Heart's Dream Boat Annie on 8 track cartridge. Looks like it might fit into a 3480/3490 drive. Does that count?
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Sam Golob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Saving your old tapes Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:55:29 -0500 Hi Folks, It just occurred to me after having a discussion with a fellow sysprog that most of us have old tapes and cartridges lying around (collecting dust) which have potential usefulness if they'd be converted to DVDs or CD roms and put into AWS format. The technology is certainly available for that, and it's a lot easier to store (say) 2 DVDs than 20 or 25 carts (or 2400 foot reels). Many of us, who were hoarding old tapes, not knowing what would be done with them, of course never anticipated that you can run MVS on a PC. (And you LEGALLY can run 1975-vintage MVS 3.8 at home.) So even if you think your old tapes aren't useful, you can make them useful to SOMEBODY, and the other side is, that CDs and DVDs take up a whole lot less space than tapes do. And also, you can make duplicates of CDs and DVDs much more easily, so they can be saved for longer. I wanted to put this idea out to the public, because people often don't think of that. Since I do a lot of software archiving (being the co-proprietor of the CBT Tape collection), I have a tendency to think along those lines. Anyway, if anybody is interested, please say something. This idea can be a bigger boon to us MVS people than anybody anticipated. The technology to do Tape to AWS or TAPE to FakeTape (TM) conversions on an MVS system, can be found on CBT Tape File 533. Go to www.cbttape.org. More recent stuff is on the Updates page, so look at the Updates page first. Then, look at the CBT page. All the best....... Sincerely, Sam Golob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html _____________________________________________________________ Netscape. Just the Net You Need. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
