Hi folks,
Does anyone happen to have any links for XENIX on a Tandy 2000?
Cheers,
--
Adrian Graham
Owner of Binary Dinosaurs, the UK's biggest private home computer collection?
t: @binarydinosaursf: facebook.com/binarydinosaurs
w: www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk
I know Paul well (we were contemporaries at U. WI). He does not do that
very often. He did not indicate any issue with a fire at the building
that contains his collection when I last spoke with him.
He does not actually read "blocks". He reads the tape in an *analog*
fashion, and then proce
It will be at the CHM. The museum is still closed but VCF will be happening. To
be consistent with current Santa Clara covid conditions, bring your mask.
see: https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/
I hope to see you all there.
Dwight
Vintage Computer Festival West 2021 –
Perhaps the work could be split up: reading the track waveforms is the one step
that requires special hardware (and the skill to handle the tape with minimal
damage). Given a collection of recovered waveforms, the data recovery can then
be done by anyone.
paul
> On Aug 5, 2021, at 8:3
On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 10:25 AM Jay Jaeger wrote:
>
> James, I am located in Madison WI. I would need to fire up my SCSI 9
> Track drive (software on Linux) and test it as I have not used in a
> couple of years, but I have done recovery of old tapes from this era
> before, and have a primitive se
Some thoughts
On 8/4/2021 4:14 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctech wrote:
Whoever does it, I have a few suggestions when it comes to 40+ year old
tapes.
1) Bake the thing at 58C for a day or two. It might just prevent you
from staring at a tape stuck to the head and a pile of brown dust at the
bottom o
Yeah, well, the first part is the hard part - setting it all up and
making recording. The second part is more or less trivial, once the
software was done.
One of the 1410 tapes had a persistent parity error - that one I was
able to figure out from knowledge of the machine, instruction set, et
On 8/5/2021 9:28 AM, James Liu wrote:
On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 10:25 AM Jay Jaeger wrote:
Thanks, Jay (and others) for offering your assistance. I've asked
Chuck to have a look at the tape, and we'll see how it goes.
Great!
Given the name "IEBUPDTX" this tape was certainly intended to be
Just a run-down as there is a lot happening in the next few months:
https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/
West is THIS WEEKEND August 7th and 8th
Mountain View, CA.
https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/
August 20-22
Atlanta, GA
Thanks for the announcement! We have the venue and the plans are nearly
completed. I will be sending a flyer with details asap.
bill
On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 11:46 AM Andrew Diller via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Just a run-down as there is a lot happening in the next few months:
>
>
I am excited to see this as I missed the first one. My 25th is clear and I will
be there.
-andy
> On Aug 5, 2021, at 12:50 PM, Bill Degnan wrote:
>
> Thanks for the announcement! We have the venue and the plans are nearly
> completed. I will be sending a flyer with details asap.
> bill
>
>
On 8/5/21 8:23 AM, Jay Jaeger via cctech wrote:
>
> Also, before starting (after baking and cool-down) I unspool maybe 25
> feet of tape onto a clean surface to make sure it isn't sticking. If it
> does, I let it sit for a few hours, and then bake it again. Have not
> had to bake for additional t
On 8/4/21 4:14 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
5) Forget using a streamer--they're just not suited to dealing with
fragile tape.
I may differ on this one. CDC Keystone (92181 and 92185)
drives are really gentle on tape.
They have air bearing "hubs" that the tape wraps over, and
nothing b
On 8/5/21 11:20 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
> They have air bearing "hubs" that the tape wraps over, and nothing but
> the tape head and cleaner blades touch the oxide side of the tape. But,
> they can still suffer from tape sticking to the heads.
...which is where the tape ends up sticking,
> On Aug 5, 2021, at 2:55 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> On 8/5/21 11:20 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
>> They have air bearing "hubs" that the tape wraps over, and nothing but
>> the tape head and cleaner blades touch the oxide side of the tape. But,
>> they can still suffer from
On 8/5/21 12:04 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
> Does anything other than (real) DECtape arrange for an air cushion between
> tape and head? Would it be possible to tweak a tape drive -- streaming or
> otherwise -- to do that?
Dunno--probably not at 6250 GCR, htough.
Thank you for mentioning VCF Midwest! Here's another local show.
Despite the narrow niche, it keeps growing every year:
The 29th Annual “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST
https://www.glensideccc.com/cocofest
November 6-7
Elk Grove Village, IL
-j
On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 10:46 AM Andrew Diller via cctalk
wr
> On Aug 5, 2021, at 8:39 AM, Jay Jaeger via cctech
wrote:
> I know Paul well (we were contemporaries at U. WI). He does not
do that very often. He did not indicate any issue with a fire at the
building that contains his collection when I last spoke with him.
>
> He does not actually read "b
> On Aug 5, 2021, at 3:57 PM, Len Shustek via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> > On Aug 5, 2021, at 8:39 AM, Jay Jaeger via cctech
> > wrote:
> > I know Paul well (we were contemporaries at U. WI). He does not do that
> > very often. He did not indicate any issue with a fire at the building that
> >
On 8/5/21 5:57 AM, dwight via cctalk wrote:
It will be at the CHM. The museum is still closed but VCF will be happening. To
be consistent with current Santa Clara covid conditions, bring your mask.
see: https://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/
I hope to see you all there.
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