Carrier medium · Magnetic tape

Nine-track reel tape

206 records recovered from nine-track reel tape, newest restorations first.

Risk
High
What goes wrong
Binder hydrolysis, which makes the tape sticky and shed its oxide.
How Lazarus reads it
Baked at low temperature to stabilize the binder, then read once, slowly, on a restored transport.
  • 85 bit-exact
  • 57 complete
  • 15 reconstructed
  • 38 partial
  • 11 fragmentary