24 Jan
2012
24 Jan
'12
9:16 a.m.
At 11:04 AM 1/24/2012, David Riley wrote:
On Jan 24, 2012, at 11:40 AM, John Foust wrote:
> He wishes there was a modern replacement for reading old tapes.
> Seven-track and nine-track. Speed is not an issue; data recovery is.
> He says hardly anyone wants to write to tapes any more.
>
> A simple transport, a flexible read-head, a bunch of software, right?
> Call it TapeFerret.
A few minutes after I wrote that, I found Al Kossow's project:
<http://bitsavers.org/tools/wizl/tapewizl/>http://bitsavers.org/tools/wizl/tapewizl/
It uses an IBM 3480 head.
What's the latest on that project, Al?
Is my faulty memory also remembering that Jerome Fine did something
like this once upon a time?
- John