25 Jun
2004
25 Jun
'04
1:27 p.m.
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 21:50, Nico de Jong wrote:
"Baking" tapes is a well-known
"remedy" in the industry. Afterwards, the
tapes are not to be used anymore.
I'd like to amplify what Nico points out -- old media like this should
be treated as a one-time shot, prepare it, extract the data, then
(virtually if not actually) abandon in place.
Baking etc won't repair the tape, just give you a temporary window in
which to recover data from a rapidly-failing medium. Act fast, get the
data off and hang the tape on the wall as art.