Reading old tapes

From: Tom Jennings <tomj_at_wps.com>
Date: Fri Jun 25 20:27:50 2004

On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 21:50, Nico de Jong wrote:

> "Baking" tapes is a well-known "remedy" in the industry. Afterwards, the
> tapes are not to be used anymore.

I'd like to amplify what Nico points out -- old media like this should
be treated as a one-time shot, prepare it, extract the data, then
(virtually if not actually) abandon in place.

Baking etc won't repair the tape, just give you a temporary window in
which to recover data from a rapidly-failing medium. Act fast, get the
data off and hang the tape on the wall as art.
Received on Fri Jun 25 2004 - 20:27:50 BST