From: Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] tape reading (was Re: Spacewar at Bell Labs)
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 16:17:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ba0abdf-fefe-5494-785f-c0bcd020bdc9@bitsavers.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200115132428.EDF319B898@minnie.tuhs.org>
On 1/15/20 4:29 AM, John Foust wrote:
> Same thing for a new way to read a magtape. You'd think it
> could be done with a universal read head and some software.
It's been done. You need a good transport that has enough torque to deal with
sticky tapes and a digitizer with about 100gigs of ram if you're doing acquisition
with a Saleae Logic16 USB3 analyzer.
https://github.com/LenShustek/readtape
The setup is a couple thousand dollars.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-16 0:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-15 3:32 [TUHS] Spacewar at Bell Labs Brian Walden
2020-01-15 4:01 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-15 4:50 ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-15 6:17 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-01-15 6:34 ` Earl Baugh
2020-01-15 7:10 ` [TUHS] Spacewar at Bell Labs [ really paper tape readers and tangentially related things ] Jon Steinhart
2020-01-15 8:05 ` Earl Baugh
2020-01-15 14:50 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-15 23:40 ` Al Kossow
2020-01-15 12:29 ` [TUHS] Spacewar at Bell Labs John Foust
2020-01-16 0:17 ` Al Kossow [this message]
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