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Re: [EXT]: Tape Label from 1992
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Roy Brown <[log in to unmask]>
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Roy Brown <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 13 Nov 2020 23:08:31 +0000
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Never underestimate the bandwidth of a TIE fighter full of mag tapes 😛

Roy

> On 13 Nov 2020, at 18:11, Tracy Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Makes you wonder why the Empire still used data tapes in the vault tower on the planet Scarif in Rogue One?
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>> On 11/13/20 1:01 PM, Stan Sieler wrote:
>>   The major portion of that task would be to hook up a DDS tape
>>   drive to
>>   PC.  (Which involves getting hardware cards and drivers, et. al.)
>> Allegro has a utility to read a real tape (DDS/DAT/9track/etc.) and convert it to STORE-to-disk format
>> or to SIMH tape image format.  One could use it to create a SIMH tape image for the simulator,
>> use the simulator to restore BACKREST, then run BACKREST on the simulator to restore the files
>> from the tape image.  Note that this will likely not work if the tape has any tape errors on it :)
>> (Note that on an A-Class, CM STORE's RESTORE mode doesn't understand STORE-to-disk format)
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> Tracy Johnson
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