Reading MT/ST tapes
    Len Shustek 
    len at shustek.com
       
    Sun Aug  1 21:46:48 CDT 2021
    
    
  
>Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 18:37:17 -0500
>From: Cory Heisterkamp <coryheisterkamp at gmail.com>
>  This is a bit of a long shot, but is anyone aware of a successful 
> method to read IBM Selectric MT/ST tapes?
>  A museum in Australia has a box of them and are interested in the contents.
At the Computer History Museum we sometimes use a software technique 
to recover data from the analog waveforms on mag tapes.
https://github.com/LenShustek/readtape
I'd like to try that on MT/ST tapes. Does anyone have a couple of 
MT/ST tape cartridges with data that I can experiment with?
    
    
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