11 Oct
2006
11 Oct
'06
12:03 a.m.
User Staylor wrote:
Was there someone who would be able to read 3 DECtapes
for me? Two of them are
from PDP-11 RSTS systems. The third has sources from ancient UNIX (circa 1974)
possibly 4th or 5th edition.
I have offered to read tapes before.
I have a 1600/6250 tape drive and have read MPE/IBM/DEC/unix tapes.
However, sometimes if the tapes are old, they have not been readable;
or contain various IO errors affecting some files.
(Remember: 1600/6250, 9-track reels)
I'm not a professional site -- its more of a hobby.
I'm willing to do it for members of this list with small quantities
of tapes -- no charge (or for others or large quantities for a
small fee: www.reeltapetransfer.com)
But you can check out other sites like
http://www.electrovalueinc.com/
From their website, it looks like they do a reading service for $35.
There are others, try google search for data recovery services.
Keven Miller kevenm at reeltapetransfer.com