22 Jun
2005
22 Jun
'05
6:34 p.m.
Joe wrote.....
I still have a bottle of it but what good would it
do to know the binary
pattern? You couldn't program a new tape with it.
Uh, yes you could. The bits revealed on the tape could be read optically.
Build something like an optical paper tape reader mechanism but with much
better optics. Then take the data to a system with mag tape and write a new
one.
Just a thought. Perhaps a stupid one, but a thought nontheless :>
Jay