Dealing with 4mm and 8mm tapes

[Zane H. Healy]

Out of curiousity what are people on the lists experiences in dealing with
4mm and 8mm tapes?  The 4mm tapes are about 12-13 years old and the 8mm 8-13
years old.

I've managed to keep a good selection of tape drives around, so we should
hopefully have drives (though cleaning tapes are a different matter).  We
don't know what model DDS drive the 4mm tapes were written in, however, we do
have DDS3 and maybe DDS4 drives from RS/6k's, and are hoping they'll be able 
to handle any funky formating issues.  Interesting, someone here just came
up with the name "AP Unix" as a possible maker of the 4mm drives used back
then.

			Zane