[TriLUG] A UNIX oldie and perhaps a goodie

[David Black]

Any identifying info on the tape and what are its dimensions?

Guessing a QIC or early DAT.  The format is likely dump, cpio or tar and may be readable if you can find a SCSI drive compatible with the cartridge.

Dave

----- "Greg Brown" <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> A friend of mind dropped by my cube this morning and left an old UNIX
> tape
> probably created with a SparcStation 10.  Turns out my old friend has
> been
> let go from the company and he found this tape cleaning out his desk. 
> He
> left a tongue-in-cheek note saying "here are your sound files back". 
> The
> tape is dated 11/12/96.
> 
> What's interesting here is *I think* this tape contains the /audio
> directory
> from sunsite.unc.edu prior to The Great Disk Crash.  I have absolutely
> no
> way of reading the tape.  If anyone is interested in the tape and has
> something that can read it I'd be curious to know what's actually on
> this
> thing.  If the tape does indeed include the old audio directory from
> Sunsite
> I'd be interested in coverting the tape to some other useable format. 
> I
> have no idea what format the audio files are stored as but I would
> assume a
> plug-in for Audicity exists.
> 
> Greg
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