30 Jan
1998
30 Jan
'98
1:36 p.m.
On my web site, I express my hopes to develop software to help rescue
old cassette data by digitizing the tapes. I'm still hunting for
specifications of the old formats.
I just got a box full of Altair-era cassettes on loan. I plan to
digitize them now and rescue the data later.
- John
Jefferson Computer Museum <http://www.threedee.com/jcm>
30 Jan
30 Jan
2:18 p.m.
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4:14 p.m.
Tim Shoppa wrote:
An excellent idea. Disk is now cheap, tape is now fading.
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.
On my web site, I express my hopes to develop
software to help rescue
old cassette data by digitizing the tapes. I'm still hunting for
specifications of the old formats.
OK, I'll build a web site this weekend that describes the Kansas-city
and Tarbell standards. Will this be useful?
I just got a box full of Altair-era cassettes on
loan. I plan to
digitize them now and rescue the data later.
If you wanted to make some digitized fragments available, I'd gladly
make some guesses as to the format.
I think your approach (digitize now, analyze later) is 100% the right
decision for old media. The more oversampling you do, the better! 
5:40 p.m.
At 01:36 PM 1/30/98 -0600, you wrote:
On my web site, I express my hopes to develop software to help rescue
old cassette data by digitizing the tapes. I'm still hunting for
specifications of the old formats.
I just got a box full of Altair-era cassettes on loan. I plan to
digitize them now and rescue the data later.
If you succeed, I would be interested in getting copies of some of those
old tapes for the Altair. I hope to get the stuff to connect a tape drive
to my Altair soon.
I have some of the specs for HP stuff. But that's probably newer than
what you're looking for.
Joe
- John
Jefferson Computer Museum <http://www.threedee.com/jcm>
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