On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote: >> Does anybody actually *have* a functional 7 track drive? > > if you really need one, i know what trail i would start to follow. > there are folk keeping old stuff alive and pulling arcane things > off old media (like the besm-6 system). the text archive folks (talk at blackhat) may as well have a method to read these.