[TUHS] tape reading (was Re: Spacewar at Bell Labs)

[Al Kossow]

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.