[ale] 8mm DAT tapes with data

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Thu Sep 1 23:39:51 EDT 2005


Sorry. No 8mm here. Thought I had one but it's an 8mm travan so the case
won't fit :(

Since I did use a travan tape system I got pretty good at rewinding tape
onto the spools...

I love my VXA2 autoloader :)

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 22:25 -0400, Dow Hurst wrote:
> There is a professor here at UNCG in NC that has backup tapes from 
> earlier research with tar archives.  We don't have an 8mm DAT tape drive 
> to use to get the data off the tapes.  Is there any businesses that will 
> extract the data onto a DVD by chance for a reasonable price?  Failing 
> that, does anyone on the list have access to such a drive and would be 
> willing to help out?  It is crystallography data of soluble proteins 
> from what I understand.  Thanks,
> Dow
> 
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