25 May
2006
25 May
'06
6:38 p.m.
On 5/25/2006 at 7:50 PM Michael B. Brutman wrote:
I ran across a Advanced Diagnostics cassette tape for
an IBM PC 5150.
I've never seen such a thing before. Besides the obvious
cassette-to-cassette copy (which I'm not equipped to do), how else would
one preserve this? A WAV file?
A plain audio copy (tape-to-tape) should be fine--the format of these
things is fairly well documented, so there's no mystery. You might,
however, make a copy of the tape using a 5150 to read it and save the data
in each tape block as a file (since there's no standard for saving 5150
tapes that I know of).
With the data, the original tape can easily be recreated, if desired.
Cheers,
Chuck