recovering cartridge tapes (was: Tek fiches found! (was: Looking for Tektronix 4051 programs...))

[Richard]

In article <4C44D464.2010005 at bitsavers.org>,
    Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org>  writes:

> I have been using conventional drives for 1/2" tape recovery.

OK, apparently my memory is misfiring then.  You aren't using the
naked read head and digitizing the analog signals from the head and
then using digital signal processing to extract 0s and 1s from the
analog signals?

That is the system I was remembering.  I thought I remembers that it
didn't use traditional drive transport mechanisms because the tapes
that were processed that way were too fragile to survive transport in
that manner.
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