14 Feb
2007
14 Feb
'07
12:12 p.m.
I know Al and a few other people have setups for
digitizing the analog
outputs of the read heads for 7-track and 9-track magtapes, but has
anyone concocted a similar beast for the DC100 or QIC tapes?
Is it even possible?
Yes, it is probably what I'm going to have to use to recover
the Tektronix 4051 tapes that I got from Jim Willing.
It shouldn't be to difficult to do something similar with heads
that don't move (HP, Apple Tape Backup, etc). Fiddling with the
firmware for QIC drives with serpentine recording is more difficult