24 Jan
2012
24 Jan
'12
6:46 p.m.
John Foust wrote:
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?
The only tapes I have EVER used were the TK50 and TK70,
in particular the TK70 which I actually used for backups
for about 5 years until I acquired a few Sony SMO S-501
magneto optical drives and media.
Well, I did bring home a 9 track about 15 years ago, but I
never used it since I only had one. I did not consider it
to be reasonable to depend on a single point of failure in
respect of using it for backups.
I still have the Sony SMO S-501 drives and media, along
with the TK50 and TK70 and media, but the 9 track tape
drive is long gone.
Jerome Fine