Tape reel data recovery from MERA-400 polish computer

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Fri Mar 10 12:19:54 CST 2017


Spinning at 50ips probably helped instead of the default 20

I would have digitized the tach signal too, but luckily it wasn't needed

Sad neither you or I are mentioned in the credits

I'm going to try it as well, since I have all the hw to try it out.

On 3/10/17 10:16 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> On 03/10/2017 09:59 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
>> This is fsckin cool. Chuck and I were wondering how it turned out.
>>
>> On 3/9/17 7:10 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
>>> http://museo.freaknet.org/en/recupero-dati-nastri-magnetici-del-computer-polacco-mera-400/
> 
> That's pretty amazing, considering the crappy nature of those Qualstar
> drives.
> 
> I may give it a try.
> 
> --Chuck
> 



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