| From: James Knott via talk <[email protected]>

| On 08/09/2016 04:12 PM, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
| > I've given up on the use of tape. I use external hard drives for backup.
| 
| You should always back up with tar to 9 track tape stands, the way the
| computer gods intended.  ;-)

I did.  Now I cannot read them.  I have a box of them, slowly aging.

I can still read my punch card and papertape backups, but *very* slowly 
(i.e. by eye).

Open question: can I read my 5.35" quad density floppies (7th edition 
filesystem).
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