mag reel tape (was Re: Boston Linux Conference December 3-4)

[travis at scootz.net (Travis Roy)]

I'm not sure if our system could read it. I'll ask and get back to you.
Do you know how they were saved? The format?

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> From: John Abreau [mailto:jabr at abreau.net] 
> Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 1:24 AM
> To: Travis Roy
> Cc: discuss at gnhlug.org; discuss at blu.org
> Subject: mag reel tape (was Re: Boston Linux Conference December 3-4)
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> "Travis Roy" <travis at scootz.net> writes:
> 
> > two biggest customers still send us lists on 1/2" mag reel tape. Of 
> > course we do all our work on very old AS/400 (we're getting 
> a new one 
> > next week). Actually, anybody know much about the whole 
> AS/400 stuff?
> 
> That reminds me, a while back when I was digging through my 
> storage room, 
> I ran across a few old 9-track tapes with backups of my 
> college course 
> work.
> I emailed a friend who still works there, to see if I could bring the 
> tapes
> over there to read and copy to my laptop, so I could 
> ultimately burn them 
> onto CDR before the tapes decayed away. However, they no 
> longer have any 
> equipment for reel tapes.
> 
> While it's not a particularly big priority, it would be kinda nice to 
> recover the contents of the tapes at some point, if they're still 
> readable.
> Is there any chance I could bring them over sometime to read 
> them? Or if not, does anyone else have access to a 9-track 
> tape drive that 
> I could borrow a little time on?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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