20 Jul
2010
20 Jul
'10
11:25 a.m.
On 19 Jul 2010 at 13:21, Richard wrote:
So? You disassemble the cartridge. It's not hard (particularly if you
don't need to get it back together)
If we build a similar device for these cartrdige
tapes we can avoid
the capstan and drive belt problems and recover the data in a secure
manner.
I don't understand (I'm probably very dense today). The belt ensures
that the supply and takeup reels in a DCxxx cartridge move together.
The reels are not accessible without disassembling the cartridge.
How would one handle a cartridge with a broken belt with your idea?
I think the idea is that you extract the tape itself from the cartridge
and run it over a head in a specially-made drive and thus extract the
data (really flux transitions) from it.
-tony