16 Jan
2020
16 Jan
'20
6:17 a.m.
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.