I welcome a bit of illumination to help me form a vision of the totality of the problems. On the tape subject, one practical need I'd like to crack this year is archiving the UNIVAC 1219 tapes. Lets start a new thread on tapes if anyone has more to offer at this time. On 1/27/2023 11:19 AM, David Gesswein via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 10:57:10AM -0500, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
We also have tape to contend with.
I'm also working on reader for DEC/LINC tapes though not performing as well as I like that hopefully will be an option to use with one of your drives. Chuck on the forum made a Pertec reader that with one of your drive in the museum may be a good option for 1/2". Working drive on a classic computer may be useable if it can do image reads and you have a way to get the data off.
So this is a bigger subject than the applesause application at VCF Mid Atlantic.
Yup. Everything gets more complicated as you look into the details.