1 Nov
2025
1 Nov
'25
12:25 p.m.
Martin, Michael,
Thank you!
We don't have possession of the tapes yet, but, assuming that
happens, I'll try RICM to see if their machines are working again.
/guy fedorkow
On 11/1/2025 1:00 PM, cctalk-request(a)classiccmp.org wrote:
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:22:48 -0700
From: Martin Eberhard<mfeberhard(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [cctalk] Re: reading DECtape
To:cctalk@classiccmp.org
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If you don't find a closer alternative, I have working DECtape drives on my PDP8e (in
California), as well as software that allows me to upload an entire tape image as a binary
file (via Xmodem protocol).
I'd be available to do this sometime after November 11.
Martin
Typing mangled by iPhone
> On Oct 31, 2025, at 10:53 AM, Guy Fedorkow via cctalk<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
>
> We may have a half a dozen DECtapes, probably from the PDP-6 era, perhaps with ITS
with content...
> Is there anyone, preferably in the MIT vicinity, who might have a working DECtape
drive and be willing to try to read the tapes?
>
> Thanks
> /guy fedorkow
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