20 Jul
2005
20 Jul
'05
4:09 p.m.
Hi--
I've got a pile of tk50's I'd like to preserve
the contents of. Maybe 300 or so.
what's the fastest drive for reading them?
I have a qbus tk70, and probably a tkz-50 somewhere,
but if it could read them faster, I'd be perfectly
willing to acquire a tz30 or a dlt. Surplus dlt stackers
like a tz887 are pretty cheap these days; could one
of those do the job?
format wise, many of the tapes are vms sw install kits.
is there a way (ie, existing sw and formats) to archive
these such that new install tapes could be cut without needing
a vms system to do it?
--t.i.a.
--akb