23 Nov
2021
23 Nov
'21
11:17 a.m.
On Nov 23, 2021, at 1:21 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
...
Just think of all of the stuff that hits the landfill from old timers
who have passed. The inheritors don't know what to do with the stuff
other than dispose of it.
Or they might not know how to find devices that can read the stuff. I have some examples:
a couple of DECtapes, and an RA60 pack. I know how to find someone who can read them, but
none of my family would.
The same, only more so, for 7 track tapes. Or CDC 626 14-track tapes. And what about 10
track tapes? There's someone in England working on reading some of those for an old
English computer; those tools may or may not be suitable for reading EL-X1 tapes.
Similarly, there was the recent heroics to recover Univac 1 tapes (if I remember right).
paul