23 May
2006
23 May
'06
11:07 p.m.
Dave R from UWM (Milwaukee) asked me if I knew how to
read his old
9-track tapes. I told him one of the best places to ask was here. So
I'm asking. Al, this is tall Dave I'm talking about.
He doesn't have a drive, working or not, and I have no clues about
what format it is. I'm in the process of asking.
Any ideas?
A variety of list.people seem to have working 9-track drives.
I've just recently read some of my old Pr1me tapes on mine.
There are a few common formats used with machine emulators; the simh
one is pretty simple. I wrote my own unix C code to read tapes into
that type of file; there are other programs around too.
If he wants to do it himself, SCSI 9-track drives (e.g. DEC TSZ07
units, or Overland hardware) do trade on eBay.
De