1/2" tape cleaner?

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> I think that Al Kossow has lots of experience reading old DECtapes based 
> on
> the good DecTape archives that he has on bitsavers.  Al,  can you share a
> little of your experience and insight with the rest of us?  How well do 
> these
> things hold up 30-35 years later when they are actually being read and
> written to on a TU56?
>
> Ashley
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>
Along the same line of sharing from AL, can you share with us what equipment 
you use to scan books, manuals, and papers in order to archive them on 
bitsavers?  I need to start a project here at the museum to start archiving 
the books, manuals, papers, schematics, and other stuff before they are lost 
forever.  Also need to start moving stuff from older media to CD's or DVD's 
to archive some of the tapes, 5 1/4 FD and other media.  Thanks  John