Read Old Tape?

One of our faculty needs to retrieve data on a 3M DC600A
data cartridge
tape (circa 1990). Does anyone have equipment that can read
this?

Debra Bartling
Earthquake Engineering Research Center
665-3531




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Debra,

The good news is that many mechanisms support that format,
the bad news 
is that they're all more than 15 years old. I'm most
familiar with 
Archive Corp., here's a link that shows which models support
your format:

http://www.9to5computer.com/DATA%20CART%20REFERENCE.htm

If you can find a tape drive, it will likely come in an
external case 
with one or two 50-pin Centronics-style(large trapezoidal
with rounded 
corners) connectors.

If you can find a drive, I'd be glad help you read it. Odds
go up if 
your faculty member knows what OS & sofware was used to
write the tape.

HTH, Paul

debrabberkeley.edu wrote:
> One of our faculty needs to retrieve data on a 3M
DC600A data cartridge
> tape (circa 1990). Does anyone have equipment that can
read this?
> 
> Debra Bartling
> Earthquake Engineering Research Center
> 665-3531
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
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