[H390-MVS] 3480 cartridge

['George' [e-mail] [H390-MVS]]

Gentle folks,

I have a 3480 cartridge from about 1990. It is in a VMFPLC2 dump/restore
format.

It was created on a VM system. The contents is mostly of nostalgic value.

I can offer two 3480 cartridges if you can somehow help me to get the data
off the cartridge.

Thanks

Cheers

George

['Wally Mclaughlin' [e-mail] [H390-MVS]]

George,



I highly recommend Data Conversion Services
(www.dataconversionresource.com) to anyone who needs any

kind of tape or cartridge loaded into their PC. They were able to read
my 6250 BPI tape which I had created in 1985 without a single error!



Wally





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Subject: [H390-MVS] 3480 cartridge





Gentle folks,

I have a 3480 cartridge from about 1990. It is in a VMFPLC2
dump/restore format.

It was created on a VM system. The contents is mostly of nostalgic
value.

I can offer two 3480 cartridges if you can somehow help me to get the
data off the cartridge.

Thanks

Cheers

George

[Velvet Jones [e-mail] [H390-MVS]]

Did they ever make a 3480 type drive that could talk to a PC or workstation? At my second job out of school we had a box that could read a 3420/9 track in to a PC. We used it to transfer billing info from DOS/VSE to a Novell server. This was before TCP/IP and the tools that went with it were readily available on the mainframe side. I just remember it was slow as hell, but it was still more reliable than then the real 3420s we had. Those use to break down at least once a week.

VJ


On Friday, August 11, 2017, 4:03:36 PM EDT, 'Wally Mclaughlin' ***@cisterncay.com [H390-MVS] <H390-***@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 


George,

 

I highly recommend Data Conversion Services (www.dataconversionresource.com) to anyone who needs any

kind of tape or cartridge loaded into their PC. They were able to read my 6250 BPI tape which I had created in 1985 without a single error!

 

Wally

 

 

From: H390-***@yahoogroups.com [mailto:H390-***@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 3:21 PM
To: h390-***@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [H390-MVS] 3480 cartridge

 

 

Gentle folks,

I have a 3480 cartridge from about 1990. It is in a VMFPLC2 dump/restore format.

It was created on a VM system. The contents is mostly of nostalgic value.

I can offer two 3480 cartridges if you can somehow help me to get the data off the cartridge.

Thanks

    Cheers

        George