Accessing an old DC2120 tape

[Alex2k]

Hi,

In my old stuff I found a 3M DC2120 tape. I really don't remember how
I obtained it or what data I put on it. Anyway, now I'm really
courious to see what it cotnains. Does anyone know where I could find
an old drive that is able to read it?

thanks!

 

[Arno Wagner]

Hi,

In my old stuff I found a 3M DC2120 tape. I really don't remember how
I obtained it or what data I put on it. Anyway, now I'm really
courious to see what it cotnains. Does anyone know where I could find
an old drive that is able to read it?

Professional data-recovery company. Might cost several hundred
Euro/USD though. Given that these hold only 60MB (if I remember
correctly), I doubt they are in regular usage anywhere.


Arno

 

[Michael Hawes]

Hi,

In my old stuff I found a 3M DC2120 tape. I really don't remember how
I obtained it or what data I put on it. Anyway, now I'm really
courious to see what it cotnains. Does anyone know where I could find
an old drive that is able to read it?

thanks!

Ebay.
Mike.

 

[Eric Gisin]

Most QIC MiniCart drives will read it:
http://www.qic.org/html/qicmatr.html#minicart

Professional data-recovery company. Might cost several hundred
Euro/USD though. Given that these hold only 60MB (if I remember
correctly), I doubt they are in regular usage anywhere.

Arnie makes a joke. Not funny like the Arnie governator.

 

[Alex2k]

I've already tried on ebay but I couldn't find anything by just typing
in DC2120. I was wondering if anyone knows what these drives used to
be called. And yes, ebay would be the best option. I'm not looking
forward to spend several hundred dollars.

 

[Alex2k]

ok, I've found out how to find these drives on ebay....it is enought
to type QIC-80 or Conner

 

[David Wang]

Go to eBay and get yourself a Wangtek E5525ES QIC External Tape Drive (SCSI)
and
a copy of Sytos DOS/Windows tape backup software. Together they cost you
less than $20.00
on eBay. The tape drive will read and write DC2120 by default.