Help reading a 9 track tape

[Paul Koning]

> On Aug 5, 2021, at 2:55 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> On 8/5/21 11:20 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
>> They have air bearing "hubs" that the tape wraps over, and nothing but
>> the tape head and cleaner blades touch the oxide side of the tape.  But,
>> they can still suffer from tape sticking to the heads.
> 
> ...which is where the tape ends up sticking, no matter the drive.
> 
> --Chuck

Does anything other than (real) DECtape arrange for an air cushion between tape and head?  Would it be possible to tweak a tape drive -- streaming or otherwise -- to do that?

	paul