[TUHS] unix v4 tape found

[Al Kossow via TUHS]

On 11/6/25 3:08 PM, Bakul Shah via TUHS wrote:

> What is the state of the art in reading old tapes these days?
> 

taping off the head read amplifer, using a multi-channel high speed analog to digital
converter which dumps into 100-ish gigabytes of RAM, then an analysis program Len
Shustek wrote. https://github.com/LenShustek/readtape

It is a 70s 1200ft 3M tape, likely 9 track, which has a pretty good chance of being
recoverable.


early 80's Memorex, on the other hand (like Sun and UCB liked to use)