Speaking of rare QIC tapes, I've undertaken quite an effort to read previously unreadable or unknown QIC tapes: https://youtu.be/BfKUJmPSam0 Soon, I'll do a video demonstration of the programs I wrote which read the data from the logic analyzer captures. I'm pretty excited about the success of this project. Also, maybe on topic here, I was also dialoguing with MattisLind from Sweden about preserving some rare Zilog 8000 Zeus OS tapes, where he doesn't have any hardware that will read them. http://bit.ly/1PxqcNW He asked if I was going to come to any of the Infoage/MARCH events such as Festivus, and that's where we left the conversation off. It would be a shame if he came with the tapes all the way from Sweden, and I missed him. On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:55 AM, Oliver Lehmann via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I hope that it is ok that I signed on to your list. I am from germany
Welcome!
and I'm looking for information about the Zilog System 8000. I know that
you owned at least one in the past. I don't know if you still have it, but I hope so :)
We have it, but we haven't done much with it. Perhaps at our next repair event. We have workshops here every few months.
Ok, I'll look forward to that - hoping that it will happen some day ;)
Just remember the tapes are quite rare and need be handled with care. Your tape drive has also a capstan which went to goo over the past 30 years, so please do not just put them into the drive without fixing that first.
Otherwise the tapes and their contents will be gone forever....
Regards, Oliver
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