tom jennings on Nostr: Anyone have the resources to read this half inch 1600 vpi tape from 1987? It's a ...
Anyone have the resources to read this half inch 1600 vpi tape from 1987?
It's a backup tape of J. M. Hill's (Univ of AZ, Astronomy) FORTH drive, dated 20 sep 1987.
Probably nothing earth shattering on the tape. Seven inch reel with 2 cm (thickness) on it, probably one megabyte.
Even raw block dumps would would be ok.
No idea what hardware it might be from. Probably not hard to figure out.
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