RE: Tek 4317 and/or Tek 4132

2016-06-01 Thread Rick Bensene
Al K. wrote: > At this point it may be worth digging into the drives to see if they can be > fixed. > I have had bits of a 4132 for a while, and haven't had any luck locating > software. The original drives are long gone. At the time, I looked into sending them to a data recovery firm to see

Re: Tek 4317 and/or Tek 4132

2016-06-01 Thread Pete Lancashire
3M cartridges can be either restored or the data read from them, about 15 years ago I took on a project to recover data from about 200 DC-300 cartridges. The key is test and remove/replace the elastomer band before using the cartridge. But if one does get the remains of the band all over the place

Re: Tek 4317 and/or Tek 4132

2016-06-01 Thread Al Kossow
I was also wondering if you have any hardware documentation for the 4317. I'm curious how similar it is architecturally to the 4406 On 6/1/16 7:58 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > > > On 6/1/16 7:02 AM, Rick Bensene wrote: >> Both machines have had hard disk failures, so OS is gone. >> > > At this point

Re: Tek 4317 and/or Tek 4132

2016-06-01 Thread Al Kossow
On 6/1/16 7:02 AM, Rick Bensene wrote: > Both machines have had hard disk failures, so OS is gone. > At this point it may be worth digging into the drives to see if they can be fixed. I have had bits of a 4132 for a while, and haven't had any luck locating software.