[cctalk] Re: VCF SoCal

Would an optical paper tape reader pass muster ;<) ... FWIW mine has variable sped and stop pedal capabilities, so you can be fairly gentle / careful - the feed arrangements are most important Museum donations can be done well, see eg https://history.dcs.ed.ac.uk/archive/pdp8/ProgrammesAndManualsList.html PDP8 tapes much of it standard stuff, with copies described as "written by", but also locally generated programs - a seam to mine Martin -----Original Message----- From: Henry Bent via cctalk [mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org] Sent: 01 February 2024 14:52 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts &lt;cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; Cc: Henry Bent &lt;henry.r.bent(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: [cctalk] Re: VCF SoCal On Thu, 1 Feb 2024 at 09:37, Paul Koning via cctalk &lt;cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; wrote: Generally I have found that access to special collections is conditional on having credentials that the museum is willing to accept. In that case I can imagine that the museum might be willing to allow inspection, perhaps supervised, but that they would not be willing to allow their media to be run through a punched tape reader because they were concerned about the possibility for damage. Did you talk to them about the possibility of some sort of optical scanning? -Henry