7 Feb
2006
7 Feb
'06
7 p.m.
At 06:14 PM 2/7/2006, Richard wrote:
It wouldn't be the first time I've seen someone
use a different read
head with older tapes that were "unreadable" and squeeze out the bits
with modern signal processing equipment and an analog signal from a
compatible head.
I look forward to the future universal head-head that'll be used
to recover signals from tapes of all types. Do it all in software
and it doesn't need to be real-time.
Is there something physically impossible in this problem that
I'm missing? Certainly old perpendicular N-track head is easy,
and a helical scan flying head is tiny and fast, but aren't
there many possible ways to skin this cat?
- John