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Decode the analog waveform extracted from old computer mag tapes

3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 2 comments · first 2025-11-08 · latest 2025-11-11

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  1. …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."
    comment by bigiain · 2025-11-11 · in Unix v4 Tape Found
  2. …the analysis software[1] is interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YoolSAHR5w&t=4200s [1] https://github.com/LenShustek/readtape
    comment by nullhole · 2025-11-11 · in Unix v4 Tape Found
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    Readtape: Decode the analog waveform extracted from old computer mag tapes
    story by fanf2 · 2025-11-08 · 1 comment