[TUHS] tape reading (was Re: Spacewar at Bell Labs)
Al Kossow
aek at bitsavers.org
Thu Jan 16 10:17:44 AEST 2020
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.
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