[TriLUG] A UNIX oldie and perhaps a goodie

[Roy Vestal]

I have a 15GB DLT drive and a Solaris machine at the house ( I know,  
I'm a geek).

If it's a DLT 15/30 or 10/20, I can probably read it. :)


On Oct 29, 2009, at 4:42 PM, Greg Brown wrote:

> One of my co-workers found a machine local with the correct type of  
> tape
> drive.  We're going to give that a shot.
>
> 2009/10/29 Cristóbal Palmer <cmp at cmpalmer.org>
>
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> What's interesting here is *I think* this tape contains the /audio
>> directory
>>> from sunsite.unc.edu prior to The Great Disk Crash.
>>
>> Paul Jones laughed about this and told me the story, which I had  
>> not heard.
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> We here at ibiblio would be happy to give it a shot. :) Write me
>> off-list and we'll see what we can do.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> Cristóbal M. Palmer
>> "The fun thing is to try to persuade others to share your opinions
>> about what rules and what sucks. Nothing is more fun than  
>> evangelism."
>> --Larry Wall
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