LTO is pretty simple in read two generations back. Migration is pretty straight forward. If you have a fifty year old tape, even in perfect condition, you pro

LTO is pretty simple in read two generations back. Migration is pretty straight forward. If you have a fifty year old tape, even in perfect condition, you probably won't be able find hardware to read it. As I found out when migrating a pre-LTO AS/400 tape, there are rental places known to IBM partners that rent the drives that can hook to modern equipment.