On 1/18/2016 12:46 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
Longevity of tapes was very spotty. Some expensive, name-brand tapes just disintegrated after a few years. Others have held up amazingly well.
Yeah, I think even among the same brand / model. Like I've heard bad things about Black Watch before too, but all of *my* Black Watch seem fine. Maybe just differences in amount of use and storage environment and luck of the draw.
Last year I read in some 1993 backups of my MicroVAX system with no trouble at all. I did have to clean the tape head after every tape, but that wasn't greatly different from when the tapes were new.
What media were those backups on (eg. TK70)?
- J.
