31 May
2016
31 May
'16
1:25 p.m.
tisdag 31 maj 2016 skrev Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org>:
On 5/31/16 9:34 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
the problem is head width and position. i'd have to check if the DC-100
carts being talked about (DEC and HP) all
put the heads in the same place with the same width. the problem with
using QIC transports is the head width is too
narrow for the old carts, reducing the contact area and increasing the
chance of dropouts.
On the other hand it is possible to shift the position of the head and
thereby circumvent drop-outs by splicing together reads from many different
tracks. A simple teqnique that I used sucessfully when reading S8000
tapes.
/Mattis
On 5/31/16 8:38 AM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
>
> Transferring the tape to be imaged into an audio cassette housing, and
then
imaging it on a hacked up transport
You may want to use a data cassette like the MT-2ST
http://www.ebay.com/sch/161622290065 has a decent picture. I've got the
manual
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