Will any of the more modern drives handle the appropriate density? I'm
not sure: will a 7-track 3420 handle 200 BPI? or 556 BPI?
Rick
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Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/16/2008
at 10:44 AM, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Thankfully the tapes stored at Sydney University were still available;
however, what was not readily available was a IBM 729 Mark V tape drive
needed to read the data.
WTF? Why couldn't they use a more modern drive with the 7-track feature?
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