20 Jul
2005
20 Jul
'05
9:17 p.m.
I've got a pile of tk50's I'd like to
preserve
the contents of. Maybe 300 or so.
what's the fastest drive for reading them?
I have a qbus tk70, and probably a tkz-50 somewhere,
but if it could read them faster, I'd be perfectly
willing to acquire a tz30 or a dlt. Surplus dlt stackers
like a tz887 are pretty cheap these days; could one
of those do the job?
You'll want to pay close attention to what drive you get if you go with a
DLT drive. I think you can use up the the DEC equivalent of a DLT2000
drive, however, it *MUST* be a DEC Drive, the Quantum drives can't read
them.
format wise, many of the tapes are vms sw install
kits.
is there a way (ie, existing sw and formats) to archive
these such that new install tapes could be cut without needing
a vms system to do it?
I'd recommend taking a look at the tools for SIMH, though personally, I
always use TPC format under VMS. It would be nice if there was a version of
TPC for Unix, but the closest I'm aware of is a tool to convert TPC files to
SIMH TAP files.
Zane