may we please be so lucky:)

[statespacedev]

may we please be so lucky as to face this same topic - for a primordial utexas decwar tape - amen

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/unix_fourth_edition_tape_rediscovered/

[statespacedev]

good to know -

The software librarian at the CHM is the redoubtable Al Kossow of Bitsavers, who commented in the thread that he is on the case. On the TUHS mailing list, he explained how he plans to do it:

taping off the head read amplifier, using a multi-channel high speed analog to digital converter which dumps into 100-ish gigabytes of RAM, then an analysis program Len Shustek wrote: https://github.com/LenShustek/readtape

It is a '70s 1200ft 3M tape, likely 9 track, which has a pretty good chance of being recoverable.

[drforbin]

Yes....may it be like the lion's book.

I'd love to have a look at it. REAL computers NOT A.I. nonsense.