17 Jul
2025
17 Jul
'25
10:37 a.m.
On 7/17/25 08:20, Luke Parkerson via cctalk wrote:
Hi all,
I recently got my hands on what I believe is a 9-track tape, dated 1986, which has some
old survey data stored on it from a university research project several decades ago.
I'm hoping to be able to extract the information from the tape and convert it to a
more modern data file accessible to the public, but I don't know very much about these
tapes nor do I have 9-track tape equipment.
I'm wondering if anyone who is more familiar with this technology can tell me
it's even still possible to extract this data, and if so, is there's anyone here
who can try and run the tape, or knows someone with a working 9-track tape drive?
The frame is not in the best shape, but the tape is hopefully fine. Here's a photo:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PrdBnIWUO4-317ZSwqvY-TD6dHr2CxC8/view?usp=…
Do you know for sure if it is even 9-track? Back in the
day, there were 7-track tapes, also.
What computer system was it recorded on?
I gave away my 9-track drives some years ago, but there are
some people on here who make this service available.
Jon