17 Apr
2012
17 Apr
'12
12:48 p.m.
Problem is that the 2 or 3 guys I know who posess such a system did
not provided copies since years for different reasons (no time, no
equipment, no idea where the tape actually is).
So as the time goes, the tapes will be less and less readable - if
the drives are still working at all (probably not because of the gum
wheel....).
Looks like I should just dump the parts I have from the S8000 - sad
as it was long time my dream to get a working System 8000 :(
Ah, so this is the S8000 tape drive.
Firstly, I certainly have no time to do _any_ hackery at the momnet, what
with my father still being in hospital. But if the wheel in my tape drive
has decayed, I will almost certainly be able to repair it. I've done
other roller replacements in the past, after all.
Something in the back of my mind says that the S800 tapes are 4 track
QIC-11. You can reliably read a 4 track QIC tape on a 9 track drive. And
most older QIC drives did support QIC11 encodeing. Whether you can find
oen that still does I don;t know....
-tony