Help: TK-50 data recovery.

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From: zrepachol
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 10:32

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Hi all,
  A friend has a little problem with some TK-50 tapes... Yeah, he put them
in a drive,:-( , and the drive SEEMS to have erased the header/pre-amble
from the tapes the drive has ee replaced and now he can't read the tapes.

So, is it AT ALL possile to recover the its off the tapes i this case?
Can the TK-50 be conned into reading the tape and ignoring the lack of
pre-amble? Can someone in DEC do this for them if need be? They have
a lot of mass-spectrometer data they realy would like back.

Reply by mail, will summarize...

~Paul

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