Help reading a 9 track tape

Tom Uban tom at figureeightbrewing.com
Sun Aug 1 10:42:53 CDT 2021


Hi Jim,

I have a 9track drive hooked to my old Sun IPX which may be able to read your tape.
I am in Valapraiso IN if you are up for a drive.

Best,

--tom


On 7/30/21 1:02 PM, James Liu via cctech wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been lurking for a few years, but thought I'd finally speak up
> as I just received a 9 track tape purportedly containing the source
> code to Schoonschip (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoonschip).  This
> is a 2400' reel recorded at 1600 bpi based on the labels, and a
> cursory examination suggests that it is still in pretty good shape
> (although I am not sure how it was stored over the years).  Here is a
> picture of the tape:
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JgY8QdVDchxubUz39jYn86gEczSvFhcZ/view?usp=sharing
>
> We no longer have any equipment that can read the tape, so I was
> wondering if anyone may be willing to help or if anyone had
> suggestions on where to go to get it read.  Thanks!
>
> - jim
>



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