Yes, exactly what I was thinking about trying to do myself, eventually. I've discussed this very thing with both David Gesswein (maker of the MFM emulator http://www.pdp8online.com/mfm/mfm.shtml ) and Jim Drew ( Maker of the SuperCard Pro http://www.cbmstuff.com/proddetail.php?prod=SCP ) Their experience in successfully building readers and emulators of hard drives and floppy disks/drives is something I would need to draw upon when I am ready to tackle that level of the project. I'm curious if anyone else has heard of this being attempted as of yet? On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On 11/17/2015 04:44 AM, Microtech Dart via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
As far as transferring the data pulses to new tapes, well, I haven't built anything to do this yet, but it seems to me to be fairly straightforward to accomplish this.
As QIC tapes have now started to die faster than the drives, this is probably becoming moot. It might make more sense to develop emulators for the drives themselves, to get the bits into the machines.
-Dave
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