Thanks to everyone who has responded.
I have plenty of offers for assistance now, including Bruker in Germany
and also Billerica, and other nice folks who apparently like to hang
onto old hardware. ;-)
Bill Gurley wrote:
> One of my faculty members brought to me an old data tape, for which we
> have LONG since gotten rid of the relevant tape drive. He needs some
> old NMR data from it.
>
> The tape is a DC600A compatible one. It was used on an old Bruker
> AMX-400 console. I actually found the tape drive, but it is not SCSI.
> It's the old SMD interface, and I have nothing to connect that to. (We
> upgraded our console to Avance many years ago.)
>
> My recollection is that we simply used unix 'tar' to write data to tape,
> so I should be able to recover his data easily if I could just connect
> one of these drives to a linux machine and then move it to our newer
> Bruker console to import the data.
>
> Does anyone have one of these old drives that I could borrow? It would
> need to be a SCSI-based DC-600 type tape drive. Or, if you have such a
> drive in use, perhaps I could mail the tape to you and ask you to
> extract the data.
>
> I know this is a long shot, but this list is my last chance of getting
> this done.
>
> Thanks,
>
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-Bill-
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Bill Gurley, Technical Director
Department of Chemistry
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
865-974-3145
Received on Tue Oct 07 2008 - 09:36:03 MST