Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR (among other things)

[Chuck Guzis]

On 6/27/19 10:03 AM, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
> At 11:32 AM 6/27/2019, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
>> If you google "magnetic tape viewer" they have pictures of what I think the earlier poster described.
> 
> I see quite a few on eBay and Amazon.  Looks like you just need to 
> pick a Japanese one?  What's the distinguishing characteristic of a
> better one?  It'll see mag tape marks like the liquid does?  
> Or I would assume the liquid is much more high resolution.

I've not had any luck using the gold-colored Japanese film on magtape.
Magnetic stripes yes, but not tapes.

--Chuck