Re: Old Magnetic Tapes

healyzh_at_aracnet.com
Date: 12/17/03 

Date: 17 Dec 2003 05:52:17 GMT

David J. Dachtera <djesys.nospam@neoasrptahmlnionwk.net> wrote:
> The density may turn out to be the biggest challenge. Could be 800BPI,

How common was it to write 800BPI tapes on DEC HW, especially in the
mid-to-late 80's? I've got a customer that wants me to retrieve some data
off a bunch of 9-Tracks once I verify our drive works. Our drive only
supports 1600/6250. What's going to be interesting is that I don't know yet
if they were written on a PDP-11, VAX, or Unix system.

                        Zane

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