Re: Tape reel data recovery from MERA-400 polish computer

2017-03-10 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 03/10/2017 01:40 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: A stretch with no transitions occurs of course at the block boundary (the gap). It also apparently occurs in other spots, for a few bit times: tape marks seem to consist of two frames separated by a few clocks worth of blank space. Ditto be

Re: Tape reel data recovery from MERA-400 polish computer

2017-03-10 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 03/10/2017 12:58 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: On Mar 10, 2017, at 1:39 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: The next extension is to track the tachometer values so that you can detect and compensate for tape stick/drag which is absolutely critical for formats that don't self-clock, like NR

Re: Tape reel data recovery from MERA-400 polish computer

2017-03-10 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Mar 10, 2017, at 2:25 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk > wrote: > > On 03/10/2017 10:58 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: >> >>> On Mar 10, 2017, at 1:39 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> The next extension is to track the tachometer values so that you >>> can detect and compen

Re: Tape reel data recovery from MERA-400 polish computer

2017-03-10 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 03/10/2017 10:58 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > >> On Mar 10, 2017, at 1:39 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk >> wrote: >> >> >> The next extension is to track the tachometer values so that you >> can detect and compensate for tape stick/drag which is absolutely >> critical for formats that don'

Re: Tape reel data recovery from MERA-400 polish computer

2017-03-10 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Mar 10, 2017, at 1:39 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk > wrote: > > > The next extension is to track the tachometer values so that you can detect > and compensate for tape stick/drag > which is absolutely critical for formats that don't self-clock, like NRZI. NRZI is not self clocking if you co

Re: Tape reel data recovery from MERA-400 polish computer

2017-03-10 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
The next extension is to track the tachometer values so that you can detect and compensate for tape stick/drag which is absolutely critical for formats that don't self-clock, like NRZI. Fortunately, they mention that the tapes they worked with were in good condition. The killer problem with th

Re: Tape reel data recovery from MERA-400 polish computer

2017-03-10 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Mar 9, 2017, at 10:10 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk > wrote: > > http://museo.freaknet.org/en/recupero-dati-nastri-magnetici-del-computer-polacco-mera-400/ Neat. The software mentioned in the article sounds very interesting. It talks about starting with digital data streams from the 9 hea

Re: Tape reel data recovery from MERA-400 polish computer

2017-03-10 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
Spinning at 50ips probably helped instead of the default 20 I would have digitized the tach signal too, but luckily it wasn't needed Sad neither you or I are mentioned in the credits I'm going to try it as well, since I have all the hw to try it out. On 3/10/17 10:16 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk

Re: Tape reel data recovery from MERA-400 polish computer

2017-03-10 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 03/10/2017 09:59 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > This is fsckin cool. Chuck and I were wondering how it turned out. > > On 3/9/17 7:10 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: >> http://museo.freaknet.org/en/recupero-dati-nastri-magnetici-del-computer-polacco-mera-400/ That's pretty amazing, consid

Re: Tape reel data recovery from MERA-400 polish computer

2017-03-10 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
This is fsckin cool. Chuck and I were wondering how it turned out. On 3/9/17 7:10 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > http://museo.freaknet.org/en/recupero-dati-nastri-magnetici-del-computer-polacco-mera-400/ >

Tape reel data recovery from MERA-400 polish computer

2017-03-10 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
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