You might be interested in this - the useful stuff starts at 8:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh3OA3WMJng
For these, you have to bake the old tapes in an oven to read them, then run them through a cleaning machine. There's a busy community that works at preserving the data from these. Pretty incredible that they are still readable after 50 years. Ted -----Original Message----- From: PLUG <plug-boun...@lists.pdxlinux.org> On Behalf Of Russell Senior Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2023 5:12 AM To: p...@pdxlinux.org Subject: [PLUG] anybody have any 9-track tapes that need reading? Hi all, For the last couple decades, I have had a Fujitsu M2444 9-track tape drive sitting (rather heavily) on a shelf. Until, well, yesterday, I didn't have a convenient way of connecting to that tape drive to read/write tapes. Then came yesterday, and now I do: https://github.com/RussellSenior/Pertec-Interface-Tape-Controller (forked from another guy, and debugged over this last week) Now, I have a tape drive, a tape controller, but ... uh, slightly embarrassed to say that I don't have any tapes that particularly need reading. Does anyone have any old 1/2-inch 9-track tapes that they need read? Even just for fun. Let me know, lol. -- Russell Senior russ...@pdxlinux.org
