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by h2odragon 1292 days ago
Very cool! Thank you for sharing that.

When I was hunting information for that client; I found a deck and interface card on ebay for some fairly trivial amount, $200 or so. I was really tempted to grab it just for the "neat weird gear" pile but couldn't justify it. The tapes they wanted read had been submerged for some days and were crusty. The media might have been recoverable but it would have meant pulling it out and putting the tape into new cartridges.

Am I correct in remembering that standard VHS tapes were usable in these drives?