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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Requiem, post: 857033, member: 11044&quot;]Perhaps not vintage, but interesting none the less. And vintage by computer standards regardless.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have acquired several Pioneer tapes from eBay and have send them to an awesome person who does data recovery.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the tapes:</p><p>[ATTACH]196819[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is one of the tapes in the tape drive:</p><p>[ATTACH]196804[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a sample of the metadata found on QK7992H:</p><p><br /></p><p>Block 1582:.. 0001000100550818 1 2 2020 1530 1 C * * * * * 720* * * * * * * * * * 2</p><p>CLWR1530 VESTA,</p><p>12MIN,SM.AP.,</p><p>LO-DISP</p><p>ZELLNER/MAY 21,1978</p><p>3 CCAM 2 IMAGE 1530</p><p>PROC VERSN 211</p><p>PARAM SET NO 8 4 C</p><p>NO LAMP-EXP TIME=719 SECS</p><p><br /></p><p>Block 1583:..C78141074329* * **8 * 21*074330 CAMINIT</p><p><br /></p><p>Block 1584:.. 083656 SPREP 2</p><p>Block 1585:..092642 EXPOBCM 2 12 0 MAXG NOL</p><p>EXPOSURE END TIME</p><p>READ 2 LO SS 1 NORMALC..</p><p><br /></p><p>Block 1586:..</p><p>MODE LWH</p><p>PSMGT* * *ZELLNER</p><p><br /></p><p>Block 1602:..*GEOMF 16:35Z MAY 31,&#039;78 HC</p><p>********* GEOM. &amp; PHOTOM. CORRECTED IMAGE *********</p><p><br /></p><p>CPCF C/** DATA REC. 12 1 1 1 768 9216 5 2 6.1 5.0 2536 .00000 1PC 0 2303 4069 8008 10073 11878 1PC 15883 20149 24471 29391 34333 42032 1PC..</p><p><br /></p><p>Block 1603:.. 17.000 17.000 17.000 17.000 17.000 17.000 1PC 17.000 17.000 17.000 17.000 17.000 17.000 1</p><p>PCTUBE 2</p><p>SEC EHT 6.1</p><p>ITT EHT 5.0</p><p>WAVELENGTH 2536</p><p>DIFFUSER 0 1PC C</p><p>MODE : FACTOR .283E 00 1PC*</p><p>FICOR 16:35Z MAY 31,&#039;78 HC..</p><p><br /></p><p>Block 1604:..******** DATA FROM SMALL APERTURE ********</p><p>C******** DATA FROM SMALL APERTURE ********</p><p>C*EXTLOW 17:06Z MAY 31,&#039;78</p><p>HC@EXTLOW :HT= 9, DC#= 1; ISN: 0 PSN 1 SIGS= .307 SIGL= .265CB 1= -.266830844221D 03.B 2= .225982053009D 00.B 3= .000000000000D 00C..</p><p><br /></p><p>Block 1605:..A 1= -.298879489603D 03 A 2= .302397432558D 00 A 3= .000000000000D 00C ...C*SAR 17:06Z MAY 31,&#039;78 HL</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A program was written to convert the raw binary data (A b/w bitmap) to PNG.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here the three B/W images recovered from tape QK7992H:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]196805[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The tape also contains duo-colour photos, we tried several different types of colour merges.</p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/JytCKmg.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/lUiZEu7.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Amazing that a bunch of nerds were able to do this with tapes from the early-mid 70&#039;s! (-:</p><p><br /></p><p>We are still looking what the images are suppose to be...</p><p><br /></p><p>There are also a bunch of tapes that are proven hardy to read, hopefully a follow-up for this later..</p><p><br /></p><p>Regards,[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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