Yet another idea for recovering the data from Series80 tapes - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

31 Oct 2005

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 From: "Vassilis Prevelakis" <vp at
cs.drexel.edu>

ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:...
  Hmmm. I thought it was where the taps stuch to
itself, or to the drive
 belt, when the catridge was stored. In which case your idea might not
 help much. 
Aha! There goes my original hypothesis. Well, that is relatively easy to
check. I took apart two old tapes and found the following:

Assuming that the tapes were rewound before storage, there are two
stretches of weakened magnetic coating on both tapes I looked at; the first
was short while the second longer. These correspond to the length of tape
in contact with the drive belt

Hi
 It sounds like the belts should still have any data that was
on the tape for those stretches. Reading may be a little difficult
but the information is still in the magnetic media.
Dwight