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>50 yr old tape< = circa:1972 vintage Tape

search: >'magnetic tape restoration'< @DDG : <https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q='magnetic tape restorati...>

The chances of reading the data will depend on several factors;

  1. The tape-stock (base and binder stability), the stored temperature, humidity and magnetic field exposure.

  2. A working and aligned reader.
Background.

The IBM System/360 (S/360) : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360

Is a family of mainframe computer systems that was announced by IBM on April 7 1964, and delivered between 1965 & 1978.

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Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC ) : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC

Is an eight-bit character encoding used mainly on IBM mainframe and IBM midrange computer operating systems.

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Also See;

search: >'NASA call for Moon tapes'< @DDG : <https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q='NASA call for Moon tape...>

parent News-Dog 4 years ago

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