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Today's Topics:

1. Re: [off-topic] retro-computing : anyone got (access to) an
IBM 701 tape drive? (Steve King)
2. Re: [off-topic] retro-computing : anyone got (access to) an
IBM 701 tape drive? (Max B)
3. Re: [off-topic] retro-computing : anyone got (access to) an
IBM 701 tape drive? (Paul Hazelden)


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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 14:47:27 -0000
From: "Steve King" <debian@invux.com>
To: "Bristol and Bath Linux User Group" <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] [off-topic] retro-computing : anyone got
(access to) an IBM 701 tape drive?
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky-shed_syndrome
>
> --
> John Honniball
>
>

I can say from experience in a previous job that baking tapes (as
mentioned in the wikipedia reference) makes a massive difference to the
reliability and the readability of reading old tapes.

Of all the processes we tried, baking is the only one that made a
measurable improvement.

Bake them, read them, then consider them lost.

--
Steve




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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 16:15:24 +0100
From: Max B <psykx.out@gmail.com>
To: debian@invux.com, Bristol and Bath Linux User Group
<bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] [off-topic] retro-computing : anyone got
(access to) an IBM 701 tape drive?
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baking only applies to one of the many types of tape damage though. Of
course if that is the way your tape is damaged it's the only way to fix it.

Thanks, Max B

On 4 March 2015 at 15:47, Steve King <debian@invux.com> wrote:

>
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky-shed_syndrome
> >
> > --
> > John Honniball
> >
> >
>
> I can say from experience in a previous job that baking tapes (as
> mentioned in the wikipedia reference) makes a massive difference to the
> reliability and the readability of reading old tapes.
>
> Of all the processes we tried, baking is the only one that made a
> measurable improvement.
>
> Bake them, read them, then consider them lost.
>
> --
> Steve
>
>
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 18:37:15 +0000
From: Paul Hazelden <tenuki57@gmail.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] [off-topic] retro-computing : anyone got
(access to) an IBM 701 tape drive?
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On 3 March 2015 at 21:48, Peter Hemmings <peter@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk>
wrote:

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>
>
>> Do not, under any circumstance, simply try to make a drive and read the
>> tape(s). They may be suffering from "sticky shed syndrome", whereby the
>> oxide falls off the tape as soon as it passes over the head. Many big
>> audio-tape brands sufer from this issue, and it's a major hazard to
>> old audio recordings. Be prepared for the tape to destroy itself on
>> the very first reading:
>>
>
> Sounds like "Man From Uncle"!



I think it was actually 'Mission Impossible'.

Paul.

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