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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