On 8/29/15 8:57 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
I've processed over a thousand tapes in the past ten years, and their condition
is not improving with time. Chuck has mentioned 3M Black Watch being bad, and
I've
started to see that now too, which wasn't the case in the past.
There was a question about
On 08/29/2015 08:57 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
Mid-80's are the worst, especially Memorex, and BASF, which everyone
used because they were cheap. Whatever HP bought for their
distribution tapes (probably Graham Magnetics) is very good. IBM tape
is good too. DEC used crap tape for their distributions.
On 8/29/2015 10:57 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
On 8/28/15 9:25 AM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
Many/most 9 Track tapes (those from the early to mid-eighties until 1995
or so - what matters is the date of manufacture, not when they were
written) have to be baked before reading, owing to sticky shed
syndrome.
What takes, today, present time, to read 1/2-inch reel-to-reel tape?
Years ago, I've found literally HUNDREDS of half inch reel-to-reel tape,
stacked outside a telco switching building. I managed to scavenge one
hundred and ninety of them. Ended up throwing (because of lack of storing
space... and
On Aug 28, 2015, at 3:59 AM, Operon Lac operon@gmail.com wrote:
What takes, today, present time, to read 1/2-inch reel-to-reel tape?
Years ago, I've found literally HUNDREDS of half inch reel-to-reel tape,
stacked outside a telco switching building. I managed to scavenge one
hundred
On 8/28/2015 2:59 AM, Operon Lac wrote:
What takes, today, present time, to read 1/2-inch reel-to-reel tape?
Years ago, I've found literally HUNDREDS of half inch reel-to-reel tape,
stacked outside a telco switching building. I managed to scavenge one
hundred and ninety of them. Ended up
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015, Jay Jaeger wrote:
On 8/26/2015 8:00 AM, Jacob Ritorto wrote:
Ah, I knew that sounded familiar. I have a pretty sizable stack of what
appear to be original nine-track tapes with their pdp11 software on them in
my collection. Any interest? I could try to get my tu-10
On 8/26/2015 8:00 AM, Jacob Ritorto wrote:
Ah, I knew that sounded familiar. I have a pretty sizable stack of what
appear to be original nine-track tapes with their pdp11 software on them in
my collection. Any interest? I could try to get my tu-10 going again to
image them, but might need
On 8/26/2015 2:21 PM, Mike Loewen wrote:
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015, Jay Jaeger wrote:
On 8/26/2015 8:00 AM, Jacob Ritorto wrote:
Ah, I knew that sounded familiar. I have a pretty sizable stack of what
appear to be original nine-track tapes with their pdp11 software on
them in
my collection.
