From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: asbesto@freaknet.org (asbesto) Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 12:50:40 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] reading 9 track tapes? In-Reply-To: <20150511184850.0904214DCB@www.oztivo.net> References: <20150511171856.A757518C0FC@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <20150511184850.0904214DCB@www.oztivo.net> Message-ID: <20150521125040.GC1221@freaknet.org> Mon, May 11, 2015 at 12:35:41PM -0500, John Foust wrote: > > > Can anyone still read 9 track tapes? We just un-covered two that date > >but the physical condition of the tapes; that old, they might have issues > >with shedding of oxide, etc (which a heat soak can mostly cure). If you > Oh, that tape may be just fine if it was kept in office conditions. well, it's a matter of chemical bonds that broke; something in the tape just change due to age, and sometimes a good stored tape can be difficult to read, and need baking. We're also able to do that, we recovered a lot of media at our museum. ps http://museum.freaknet.org (very old site, sorry) -- [ ::::::::: 73 de IW9HGS : http://freaknet.org/asbesto ::::::::::: ] [ Freaknet Medialab :: Poetry Hacklab : Dyne.Org :: Radio Cybernet ] [ NON SCRIVERMI USANDO LETTERE ACCENTATE - NON MANDARMI ALLEGATI ] [ *I DELETE* EMAIL > 100K, ATTACHMENTS, HTML, M$-WORD DOC and SPAM ]