recovering cartridge tapes (was: Tek fiches found! (was: Looking for Tektronix 4051 programs...))

In article <4C44D464.2010005 at bitsavers.org>, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> writes: OK, apparently my memory is misfiring then. You aren't using the naked read head and digitizing the analog signals from the head and then using digital signal processing to extract 0s and 1s from the analog signals? That is the system I was remembering. I thought I remembers that it didn't use traditional drive transport mechanisms because the tapes that were processed that way were too fragile to survive transport in that manner. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com/the-direct3d-graphics-pipeline/> Legalize Adulthood! <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>