All belt-driven cartridges are subject to poor aging of the internal belt. I've got a lot of DC600 carts that are useless because the internal belt has gotten brittle and broken, rather than turned to goo. Thanks, Jonathan On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 3:30 PM, David Riley via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Do I recall that some QIC cartridges had internal belts that turn to goo eventually, or was that a different tape that I'm thinking of? Either way, obviously, beware media integrity, especially in re: moisture. The old "25W bulb in a small box for a week" treatment might be warranted.
And if you ever do get it imaged, make sure you send the image off to Jason Scott at the Archive. :-)
- Dave
On Dec 7, 2017, at 15:20, Jason Perkins via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I don't know. It looks like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter-inch_cartridge#/media/ File:QIC_DC600A.jpg
But has a TI label on it, so I don't know what "size" it is.
On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Jonathan Gevaryahu via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On 12/6/2017 10:03 PM, Jason Perkins via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
The planets aligned, and it looks like I'll be able to make it to Festivus this year :D
I have a QIC tape that has the OS for the TI MicroExplorer LISP card I got a few years back... and no way to read it. It's Mac formatted somehow. Does anyone have something that could read this tape?
I've also got some somewhat degraded LaserDiscs from 1979 that don't play in my 1990s player. If someone has one of the original machines with a helium neon laser tube I'd love to see if the discs are salvageable.
Thanks!
Is it actually QIC, or is it one of those 100MB 'minitapes' apple used back in the day as an official apple tape backup for the mac II?
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