Subj : there will come a time when you aren't ashamed if you are fat
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Tue Feb 17 2026 02:40 pm

Hej Wilfred!

> That would be the interesting part: If they are still readable.

I am guessing they still are but won't bet the farm on it.  To find out for 
sure I'd need to find a proper adapter.  The only card reader I currently have 
within arms reach is a usb microSD.

> I have 2 sitting on my desk here.

Cool.  If/when I find the compact flash disks I may have to locate one of 
those.  I haven't seen one in decades now.

> And equipment to read from those tapes would probably impossible to
> find. Maybe in a museum? ;-)

Probably but I have heard rumours that they are still in use.  If it mattered 
at all I know where I'd start looking.  I think I might have a HP DAT drive in 
one of the totes which is a vastly shrunken down tape drive.  Not nearly the 
same other than the media being magnetic tape.  Also the 9-track tape drives 
require far more power then what I care to give them as well as the tapes being 
really expensive.

Of course it is totally different when it is somebody else's dime.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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