#tapedrive — Public Fediverse posts
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Play a .WAV Instead of Typing Line After Line Into Vintage Microcomputer
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Play a .WAV Instead of Typing Line After Line Into Vintage Microcomputer
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EDIT: It has found a home.
Free to a good home: One Hewlett Packard C2262A Storage System with seven SCSI drive bays. Two are currently populated by hard drives, one by a caddy-loading CD reader, and one by a tape drive. The faceplate of the CD reader had been held on by masking tape. 💿
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#FreeToAGoodHome #Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #HewlettPackard #HP #TapeDrive #SCSI -
I just had the idea of starting to experiment with tape drives for backups.
Someone stop me please
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A Minicomputer Tape Drive Receives Some Love - Taking on a refrigerator-sized minicomputer is not for the faint-hearted, but [Us... - https://hackaday.com/2025/10/08/a-minicomputer-tape-drive-receives-some-love/ #retrocomputing #pdp-11/44 #tapedrive #tu-50 #dec
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Komisch will partout keine Musik abspielen... #CDC #ControlData #Tapedrive
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A Steady Vacuum For The Fastest Cassette Tape Drive Ever https://hackaday.com/2025/06/05/a-steady-vacuum-for-the-fastest-cassette-tape-drive-ever/ #classichacks #cassettetape #tapedrive #hardware #vacuum
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Cleaning and testing a 1531 tape drive. Courtesy of @eazy. This one only had mechanical issues. Watching a tape load is kind of mesmerizing.
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The number of times yearly that I regret giving away my 5.25" floppy drive or my QIC tape drive to electronic recycling is NONZERO.
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This Vintage Computing Device is No Baby Food https://hackaday.com/2024/07/20/this-vintage-computing-device-is-no-baby-food/ #Retrocomputing #retrocomputer #tapedrive
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This Vintage Computing Device is No Baby Food - Today, if you want a computer for a particular task, you go shopping. But in the e... - https://hackaday.com/2024/07/20/this-vintage-computing-device-is-no-baby-food/ #retrocomputing #retrocomputer #tapedrive
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@ButtonMcLemming @CliffWade +9001%
Sadly optical media standards don't grow with the need for more storage and whilst #TapeDrive|s do, modern versions of #LTO #Ultrium are absurdly expensive so unless one needs to backup Petabytes offline it doesn't make financial sense...
Personally I prefer the form factor of 3,5" #FDD|s but their abysmal capacity makes them rather useless these days.
Which is why I suggest to replace the magnetic film with a #SSD in the same shell:
https://github.com/KBtechnologies/NeoFloppy -
@ButtonMcLemming @CliffWade +9001%
Sadly optical media standards don't grow with the need for more storage and whilst #TapeDrive|s do, modern versions of #LTO #Ultrium are absurdly expensive so unless one needs to backup Petabytes offline it doesn't make financial sense...
Personally I prefer the form factor of 3,5" #FDD|s but their abysmal capacity makes them rather useless these days.
Which is why I suggest to replace the magnetic film with a #SSD in the same shell:
https://github.com/KBtechnologies/NeoFloppy -
@ButtonMcLemming @CliffWade +9001%
Sadly optical media standards don't grow with the need for more storage and whilst #TapeDrive|s do, modern versions of #LTO #Ultrium are absurdly expensive so unless one needs to backup Petabytes offline it doesn't make financial sense...
Personally I prefer the form factor of 3,5" #FDD|s but their abysmal capacity makes them rather useless these days.
Which is why I suggest to replace the magnetic film with a #SSD in the same shell:
https://github.com/KBtechnologies/NeoFloppy -
Today, I #madethings. I am #uploading them. Now I #Sleep.
Tomorrow, I tell the server to #scrub itself. Our #zfs pool has been very slow all week. I am #worried.
I REALLY need a #tapedrive but it’s a couple of grand we don’t have.
In the meantime, have me being sarcastic about a stupid truck.
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I've got one last retro computer post from the archives: when I got my Commodore 64 back in March 1989, I had only a tape drive - the 1530 Datasette -- in the first couple of weeks. It was so cumbersome and slow that it was soon followed by the 1541-II floppy drive. But I've still got the Datasette and a few tapes! Does anyone remember those games?
#vintage #computer #vintagecomputer #retrocomputing #commodore #c64 #datasette #tapedrive #cassette https://blog.bibra.eu/2013/12/15/vintage-computing-the-datasette/ -
Anyone else here a fan of #tapedrive ? For me it's by far the cheapest way to store just about anything... I can still find new LTO-3 tapes (400-800 GB) on ebay for under 10 EUR and I only payed 50 EUR for this old HP drive :-) I wrote a few scripts to do regular automated backups of our server that are also logged and reported in emails
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Bespoke Storage Technologies: The Alphabet Soup Found in Modern Hard Drives and Beyond - It seems like just yesterday (maybe for some of you it was) we were installing Windows 3.1 off flopp... - https://hackaday.com/2020/11/04/bespoke-storage-technologies-the-alphabet-soup-found-in-modern-hard-drives-and-beyond/ #shingledmagneticrecording #hackadaycolumns #magnetictape #originalart #harddrives #tapedrive #hardware #interest #storage #hdd #qlc #smr #ssd
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The ZX Microdrive: Budget Data Storage, 1980s Style - An enduring memory for most who used the 8-bit home computers of the early 1980s is the use of casse... - https://hackaday.com/2020/09/18/the-zx-microdrive-budget-data-storage-1980s-style/ #sinclairzxspectrum #hackadaycolumns #retrocomputing #zxmicrodrive #microdrive #zxspectrum #tapedrive #sinclair
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Commodore Tape Drive Emulator On A Raspberry Pi - We imagine most of the people reading Hackaday have an old Raspberry Pi or two laying around. It’s... more: https://hackaday.com/2019/12/17/commodore-tape-drive-emulator-on-a-raspberry-pi/ #retrocomputing #raspberrypi #commodore #tapedrive #emulator
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Atari Tape Drive Turned Security DVR - We know that a lot of our beloved readers don’t take kindly to abuse of vintage hardware, so the A... more: https://hackaday.com/2019/11/01/atari-tape-drive-turned-security-dvr/ #videorecording #cassettedrive #retrocomputer #raspberrypi #videohacks #tapedrive #vintage #atari #dvr
