[vcf-midatlantic] Help with reading old round Mag tapes?

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Wed Aug 3 02:27:55 UTC 2022


On 8/2/22 18:10, David Horvath via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> Mike Loewen suggested that I join this distribution list and post my 
> request here. I have several old round mag tapes, likely written on 
> PDP-11/VAXen and CDC-Cyber, probably 1600 BPI that I'd like to try to 
> extract from. Old code, old docs, old stuff :-)
> 
> I live between Wilmington DE and Philadelphia PA but get up to North NJ 
> fairly frequently.
> 
> I understand the tapes may not be readable...

   I can assist you with this.  I think we spoke about this a year or so 
ago but I don't recall offhand where that conversation went.

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA


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