Teac Data Cassette Streamer Subsystem

The Teac Data Cassette Streamer Subsystem or Cassette Streamer had cassettes just like audio cassettes with a notch out of the top they would not use a A and a B just one side of the tape. full recording on one side, my uncle passed and left me a box of tons of cool stuff he had for work and all sorts of stuff on them on Maxell High Density Data Cassettes CS-600XD about 160 MB a tape thats alot when you compare it to what was on a 3 inch floppy disk at the time 1.4 mega bytes on the floppy versus 160mb and up on a data cassette exact look as a audio cassette. So big data from the 90s. however I dont know how to get the records off of them, I think they are Dos based with use in a program called Mountain Filesafe tape software, but it would require a driver to run with dos for the autoexec.bat file with dos and I cant find anything for that. There was old mac classics at the time I had one it had external HDD that look like the same case design as the TEAC drive that I bought to read the tapes its a 50 pin centronics scsi Connector much like the db25 to centronics cables used on parallel printers at the time making me think maybe the 90s era cassette streamer was a classic mac use, but there is so little information on the web about there uses. is that the cassette you are asking about? I was thinking about getting a firewire to scsi adapter and then trying to get it to read it but I am still gonna need a driver to see it.

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), Tape Backup

Posted on Aug 4, 2018 7:35 AM

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Aug 4, 2018 7:43 AM in response to Spritz331

makes me see more into our future with everything stored digitally, ie facebook cell phones and then its starting to get where we cant go back go get archived records, I mean the data is there for 50 plus years ie VXA tape, or DAT tape, Quantum LTO systems, same as archival gold dvds but will the hardware have the ability to get to it in the future much like the issues I have, our phones and so on, but will we have the equipment to read it still, sure we can store it on a device for 50 years plus of storage life, but in 15 years that hardware has no ability to be read, Iomega Jazz, Dito, Orb drive, Zip Drive, Rev drive, it goes on and on the list of stuff, so like me I wonder in the future how backwareds compatible we will be just to read the information. or will all of our pictures data info be lost to time, we are going to make a printed photo book because will facebook even be the same in the future?? we know our phones wont we change them all the time what is it the Galaxy 15 now (jk) or Iphone XX5 so advanced but our stuff looks so outdated so we cant even get to the data stored 😟

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