Al Kossow <a...@bitsavers.org> wrote: > Need to update my reader anyway soon, so I'm going > to append something similar to what you did the new > images I create, probably just a ascii text record > and a label picture.
For the many hundreds of 9-track tapes I'm turning into image files, I am also including an ASCII text file of whatever information I can read from the paper label and any related notes, plus several photographs of the reel of tape and any labels. Some of the labels are so faded that the only way I can read them is to put them on the flatbed scanner, then manipulate the color & contrast to bring out the writing. Of course, the photos are many times larger than the data file! I'm trying to figure out how to best organize all this data. The best I've come up with so far is to put all the files for one tape in a single directory, all with similar names. Suggestions would be welcome. Before I got side-tracked with other projects, I had imaged some 600 1600 bpi tapes. Now I have about 400 800 bpi tapes to do. The delay is that the room with the 800 bpi drive (Cipher 910) is so full of "stuff" that I can barely see the drive at the far side of the room. I'm sure than none of you people have this problem! :-) Alan Frisbie
