[Milsurplus] [MRCA] Lunar Photos

[Peter Gottlieb]

Tapes degrade in other ways. About 5 years ago I found a half inch mag tape from my college days which had all the programs I had written. I contacted HP and they offered to try and recover the data for me, although warning me it was likely unreadable by now. They called back to tell me that between their drives and even one a tech had at home it was just not possible to get anything from the tape. They actually offered to try some deeper techniques but I told them it really wasn't worth the effort and thanked them profusely for trying. This tape has no flaking and still looked and felt like it did new. 


Peter

> On Apr 25, 2014, at 6:40 PM, "J. Forster" <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:
> 
> I still have the capability of reading punch cards, reading and punching
> paper tape, and 7 track mag tape. Some of the older mag tape is flakeing
> badly and won't be readable for much longer.
> 
> -John
> 
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> 
>> Platforms come and go at alarming speed these days. Not uncommon to see
>> pallets of tapes being sold at Wallops or Goddard for next to nothing. The
>> last couple years there have been almost endless lots of D1 digital video
>> cassettes, a huge expensive non compressed digital format for analog NTSC
>> Here at the university we just pulled some one inch C format video tapes
>> we had from the nineties and found that all the local TV stations no
>> longer have that format and am now looking at trying to find a playback
>> deck for that format. We still have a working 16 MM projector and am
>> surprised by how many have come and wanted us to transfer from that to
>> video. The problem is not that there is not the media out there but the
>> equipment to transfer the old media to any current format is the issue.
>> In the last five or ten years I have been working with old DEC computers
>> at home, maybe more then with radios. The thing that occupies the most
>> time is rebuilding drives and copying media with one of the largest
>> ongoing projects being transferring old files to more modern platforms and
>> getting modern systems to be able to push software to old systems. That's
>> the big project around the shop these days.
>> 
>> Ray F
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