Re: Transfer Data from Tape Cardrige

Newsgroups	comp.sys.apollo
Date	2013-11-19 12:12 -0800
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Subject	Re: Transfer Data from Tape Cardrige
From	Kurt Nowak <kurt.m.nowak@gmail.com>

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On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 12:16:29 PM UTC-8, Phil M wrote:
> I used to work on a DN3000 in the late 90s for my PhD studies. All my program files were saved on a tape. Is there any simple way to transfer all my files from a tape cartridge to a PC?
> 
> Thanks.

Hi Phil,

My guess is that those files were rbak's and in that case you will need an Apollo to read the tapes. Or perhaps you can set up a MESS machine and a QIC-24 tape. Where are you located and how many tapes do you have? The risky thing with tapes of this age are how well the drive band has withstood the test of time. I find that the Apollo Archive drives accellerate very quickly and put a lot of stress on the band and can ruin old tapes quickly. Does anyone else have this experience? I found that my Sun QIC-150 drive accellerates more gracefully and are gentler on tapes.

One thing you could do is use copytape (or something similar) to copy it to another tape - send me that one and I would be happy to read it on my Apollo and put it on whatever format works for you. I would hate to try this with the original and risk destroying it...

Also, if you are coming down with a case of Apollo nostalgia, I might be willing to sell you one of my 20+ machines, sans monitor. Most have bad hard drives so I would have to build one that works. Not something I could do right away though.

-Kurt

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Transfer Data from Tape Cardrige Phil M <lamont1900@gmail.com> - 2013-11-13 12:16 -0800
  Re: Transfer Data from Tape Cardrige supervinx <nessuno@libero.it> - 2013-11-17 01:20 +0000
  Re: Transfer Data from Tape Cardrige Kurt Nowak <kurt.m.nowak@gmail.com> - 2013-11-19 12:12 -0800
  Re: Transfer Data from Tape Cardrige usenet@hoffart.de (Goetz Hoffart) - 2013-11-20 09:40 +0100
    Re: Transfer Data from Tape Cardrige Kurt Nowak <kurt.m.nowak@gmail.com> - 2013-11-20 10:52 -0800
  Re: Transfer Data from Tape Cardrige Jim Rees <jim.rees@rees.org> - 2013-11-25 17:31 -0800
    Re: Transfer Data from Tape Cardrige Phil M <lamont1900@gmail.com> - 2014-10-10 11:53 -0700

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