tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18677687.post954326082440452723..comments2024-03-27T15:13:24.764-04:00Comments on Computer Science Teacher: Bit Rot or How do I read this data?Alfred Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05575057876858763822noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18677687.post-86804076432564030062017-03-07T13:11:01.805-05:002017-03-07T13:11:01.805-05:00I love this... it's a dream I can certainly re...I love this... it's a dream I can certainly relate to :) A few years ago I bought a working NeXT off eBay to try and recover data from an old optical disc. Those drives are notoriously fiddly over time though, and sure enough, I couldn't get one that worked (I even dug up two other drives on eBay and tried those!) Eventually I shipped my disc to someone with a working drive and they sent me back a .tgz with a bunch of my old code. yay!<br /><br />For DECtape you might scope out <a href="http://www.livingcomputers.org" rel="nofollow">Living Computers Museum & Labs</a> and see if they have a working drive you could pull data from. I suspect that they do, and the intent of the museum is to keep these historic machines up and running so that you can fiddle with them. Might be worth a go! <br />Mark DeLourahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11198215728586854446noreply@blogger.com