Hi folks, it's probably a laughable idea but... Is it possible to read LINCtapes with a TU56 and a TD8E DECTape controller? I could imagine that it's possible due to the simple design of the TD8E controller - most work is done in software... I just stumbled across a few of those tapes with unknown content. I first thought that I got a DECTape which was wound to the wrong side. I just tried it out. The DECTape system seemed to recognize just something on the tape - as it "rewound" the tape just up to the "beginning". And then it was not able to read something, of course. Oh, it would be fine if LINCtape reading on TD8E was possible - and readily implemented... Best wishes, Philipp P.S.: I probably won't be able to give those tapes away without cleaning them... So offers to look at them for me are quite useless :-( If I do not find means to read the tapes, I'll degauss them. Or simply reformat them. Or both for a clean tape start. Most of it seems to be working data. And some obscure software I don't know (yet). -- http://www.hachti.de