1 May
2007
1 May
'07
1:47 p.m.
In article <46365B1B.30368.AD8187F at cclist.sydex.com>,
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> writes:
The Imation guy got back to me and informed me that,
as far as the
factory is concerned, there is no belt. They start with die-cut
doughnuts of a type of sheet polyurethane (proprietary treatment)
and feed them into a jig that "flips" and stretches them to shape.
He said that it was virtually impossible to do this manually.
So, if you've got a belt that holds its shape as a belt, it's
probably too far gone already.
Would it be possible to setup something like the rig that Al has at
the Computer History Museum for QIC tapes?
Namely, something with analog read heads that are connected straight
to an ADC and signal processed to recover data. You have the tape
brought over the heads at a slower than normal rate, either manually
or with a special motorized rig.
I have a feeling that after 7/9-track tapes that QIC cartridges are
going to be the next major medium that needs reconstruction in this
fashion.
They don't use helical scan on QIC tapes do they?
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