[TUHS] mag tapes

[Ron Natalie via TUHS]

Obviously, getting it off the physical media is key.   Once you have the 
raw records decoding the CPIO is pretty trivial.   Hell, my Mac even has 
cpio on it (haven’t used that in years).
Alas, I no gave up all my old collection of tape drives (9 track, QIC, 
DAT, Exabyte, etc….).    The sad truth is that tape is not a long-lived 
storage format.   The fact that this stuff is low density may help.    I 
don’t know who does recovery.   I  did recover some old real-to-real 
audio tapes and the company had to “bake” them to make sure they’d 
unwind.



------ Original Message ------
>From "andrew--- via TUHS" <tuhs at tuhs.org>
To "The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <tuhs at tuhs.org>
Date 9/1/2026 3:15:39 PM
Subject [TUHS] mag tapes

>during a belated round of cleanup around the house, i have come across 3 mag tapes:
>
>1) 2400’ reel: cpio 5281x512 blocks, 800 BPI
>2) 2400’ reel: cpio -oc 32b, 1600BPI
>3) 600(or maybe 800)’ reel: unknown
>
>i would REALLY like to get the info of tape 1.
>all tapes were made around 1980, and have been stored in good residential temp/humidity.
>
>where might i be able to process these tapes?
>or pointers to other places i might ask?
>
>	andrew hume
>