1 Nov
2025
1 Nov
'25
5:07 p.m.
Maybe Dave’s setup would work best because the reading software would not need to be
concerned with the format of the tape data.
On Nov 1, 2025, at 4:08 PM, David Gesswein via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Looks like you have closer options. If they get too many read errors I have a
setup which digitizes analog signals and processes them which may be able
to recover tapes. I'm in MD.
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 01:39:24PM -0400, Guy Fedorkow wrote:
> We may have a half a dozen DECtapes, probably from the PDP-6 era, perhaps
> with ITS with content...
> Is there anyone, preferably in the MIT vicinity, who might have a working
> DECtape drive and be willing to try to read the tapes?
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> Thanks
> /guy fedorkow
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