On 6 May 2008 13:08:45 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linda Mooney) wrote: >We got rid of all of our 800 bpi tapes a long time ago- sometime around 1990 I >think, because the new version of MVS we were installing at the time no >longer supported 800 bpi. Since we had a major customer who required that >support, we built a front-end read the tapes create a disk file job on VM. We >ran that way for a year or so until our customer was able to upgrade to - 1600 >bpi. I don't know if VM still supports 800 bpi or not.
I remember keeping a Singer machine just to copy tapes. There are some companies which handle various types of rare tapes - or were recently. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
