18 Jul
2006
18 Jul
'06
9:41 a.m.
Would it be possible to put a random DC-100A or HP85
tape in a TU-58 and
connect the heads (after amplification) to an A/D like Al is doing with
9-tracks?
You should be able to connect the heads directly to the preamp, and use the
tapewizl directly. I was going to try recovering HP and Apple 40meg tapes
this way using a TU58 transport. I haven't looked at the head geometry on
the different drives that take DC100 carts yet, though. I know I've scanned
some documentation on the 3M transport, will need to see if I've pdf'ed it
yet.
I'm also hoping to use this on TEK 405x as well (no head movement to worry
about controlling)
I'd like to try this at some point on QIC carts, but getting firware going
to do the serpentine tracks will be a bit of work.