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The bit in the article about the recovery procedure, which involves dumping info from the tape into '100-ish GB of RAM' and then using software to analyze it st
by nullhole 11mo ago
The bit in the article about the recovery procedure, which involves dumping info from the tape into '100-ish GB of RAM' and then using software to analyze it stuck out to me.
This video on the linked github page for the analysis software[1] is interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YoolSAHR5w&t=4200s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YoolSAHR5w&t=4200s
[1] https://github.com/LenShustek/readtape https://github.com/LenShustek/readtape
- kragen 11mo agoWell, the tape may not survive its second pass across the read head, so it's good to capture the analog waveform in as much fidelity as possible.
- hunter2_ 11mo agoI wonder if they'll find it suitable to bake [0] the tape first, which is quite popular in the audio restoration world but I'm not sure how much it applies to computer tape. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky-shed_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky-shed_syndrome
- debugnik 11mo agoI don't know much about tapes but it seems to apply, since the post mentions it: > I'm hoping I don't have to bake it, since that takes a day
- sedatk 11mo agoWhat a fantastic talk! Thanks for sharing.