I'm not the that Barry but I have read 20+ year old 6250 round reels within the past five years. If memory serves, more than half were successfully read.
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Moulder Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 6:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: "New" TOD (Was:Howard Turetzky has a NEW EMAIL ADDRESS) Barry I am just curious, what tape would be readable after 30 years? Virtual Tape? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
