18 Jul
2006
18 Jul
'06
10:21 a.m.
From: "Al Kossow" <aek at bitsavers.org>
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.
Would this principle work for recovery of 4mm (DAT) and 8 mm (Exabyte)
tapes? It happens regularly that customers ask if I can read "behind" a
small file they "happened" to write. I have no problems with 9 track and
3480/3490's.
Nico