Hi Tony and Bruce :)
   Why not just go visit a site with a 3k that is near you and read the tape
into that machine then FCopy it back to the tape?

   'course... Tony's answer does get you a great machine to add to your mix?
hehehe

Art "Is it Friday yet? hehehe" Bahrs

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>From: Tony Furnivall <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Readning 4MM tape created w/ HPSTORE on MPE system
>Date: Wed, 26 May, 1999, 12:21
>

> At 02:51 PM 5/26/99 -0400, Bruce Laliberte wrote:
>>I'm lookin to find out what options I have to read a 4MM tape written in
>>ascii from an HP/3K system running MPE, using the HPSTORE utility.  I've got
>>lot's of hardware (HP/HPUX, SUN/Solaris, IBM/AIX, etc) and was wondering if
>>this tape was in a format that could be read from one of these systems using
>>any of their native utilities.  Alternatively, could I have the customer
>>generate the 4MM tape using some other utility other than HPSTORE so that I
>>could more readily read it from one of these other systems.
>>
>>Any assistance /guidance would be most appreciated.
>
> You could always buy a small HP3000 - only 6-7K on the used market......
>
> Tony ;-)