On Tuesday (11/20/2012 at 11:01PM +0100), Rik Bos wrote:
 hardware emulator...
  
 Which is a solution, but doesn't restores the information on the tapes...
 And isn't at much fun as the real thing. 
 
Yes. Exactly.  The whole point is the restoration of the real, original
thing.
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Chris Elmquist