22 Apr
2002
22 Apr
'02
10:33 a.m.
John Foust wrote:
Ben- watcha mean? I've shoeshined 9-tracks to death on one
drive, then handed them to someone else who read them first
pass on a different drive.
Maybe 7-track tapes from 1961, but so far I've got nothing
older than about 1972...
-dq
Or for that matter, the seven "heads"
could be displaced
along the path of the tape, and the software would handle
the realignment of the time domain. Or you could read
less than 7 tracks at a time, and reassemble in software.
Nope --- I would guess a 7 track head is needed, as you only get one
time to read the tape.