[apt4ssx8] Re: History question - CAM-I
- From: Dave Caroline <dave.thearchivist@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: apt4ssx8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:55:59 +0100
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Jon Elson <elson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Kent A. Reed wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Speaking as a natural-born archivist, it's a pity you didn't take them up
>> on their offer (not knowing what they wanted to charge you!). The very fact
>> they would be willing to sell a tape shows how far they had fallen from
>> their earlier "join us or go away" attitude.
>
> I had been communicating mostly with Matt Shaver about recovering data from
> a certain APT tape, so
> I thought this might be a good time to mention this to the whole group. I
> have a CDC "Keystone" (92185) 1600/6250
> BPI tape drive left over from my old VaxStation. The VaxStation is pretty
> well kaput, but
> the tape drive still works. I built a board to interface between a PC and
> the drive, and wrote
> software that will read in a tape verbatim to a disk file. I also wrote a
> couple programs to
> unpack the files from several formats. I then got an open-source program to
> unpack
> VMS Backup save sets, and have proved that works. I have recovered some old
> backups I made of stuff from the late 70s to the 80s on 9-track tapes.
>
> So, if anyone has some old data on 1600 (PE) or 6250 BPI (GCR) tapes that
> they
> need to recover, I am set up to do it.
>
> Jon
been watching (and waiting hopefully) on the classiccmp mailing list :)
Dave Caroline
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