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 of the drive. (Before you start, make note of the brand and type
of
Paul Pierce read some 7-track and 9-track tapes for
me about twenty years ago. He was in Portland, OR at the time. His
"lab" was on the east side of the Willamette river, so maybe it didn't
get burned down.
I don't know whether he still has a setup to read tapes. His software
would read blocks
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 setup for "baking" tapes before trying to
read them.
