Re: University credentials used by third parties

["Jones, Dan" <Dan.Jones () UMASSMED EDU>]

It works on floppies, and other things. We had Cliff Stoll (author of The Cuckoo's Egg) on the set one night for the 
McNeil/Lehrer News Hour. Cliff was interested in the technical facility, so we gave him the cook's tour. 

We eventually got to the old cabinet where all of the old physical tape editing supplies were kept. Cliff wanted a 
bottle of the "developer" emulsion, so that he could reveal what was written on the mag stripe of a credit card... Now 
I wish that I'd kept a bottle of that stuff. 

/d


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I have not thought about tape developer in a long time. We used it to edit 2 inch video tape. I wonder if it would work 
on 8 inch or 5.25 inch floppies. 
-Eric


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Back in th early 70's, our "data acquisition system" (NOVA + custom 
built instrumentation) exported data on paper tape (via an ASR33). 
We "upgraded" to mag tape and I was explaining to one of the "older" 
civil engineering professors how this would work.  He complained "but 
I can't see my data!"  So I pulled out my "tape developer" and showed 
him the fine lines of magnetization on the tape.  He was somewhat 
mollified but I doubt he was ever very happy about it.

        David
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At 11:38 AM -0400 on 8/23/10, Joel Rosenblatt wrote:

> That reminded me of the days of using "tape developer" (very fine 
> ground up iron powder in a alcohol solution) to find errors on 9 
> track tapes .. talk about tedious :-)
>
> Joel
>
> --On Monday, August 23, 2010 11:33 AM -0400 Pete Hickey 
> <pete () SHADOWS UOTTAWA CA> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 05:40:09PM -0600, Ozzie Paez wrote:
> >
> > > .....  I actually kept several racks of Cisco firewalls, switches and
> > > routers just so that I could show them to some of the newer guys that came
> > > up after this type of equipment shrunk down to the size of a Kleenex box. o
> >
> > I have a couple of IBM 2314 disk packs in my shed... waiting for some
> > grandchildren to show them to.
> >
> > And... in keeping with the mandate of this group.... I'd bet anything
> > that they were never cleaned and still have their data on them.
> >
> > Anyone have something that reads them (fater than iron and a microscope)
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Pete Hickey
> > The University of Ottawa           A picture is worth a thousand words
> > Ottawa, Ontario                      but takes up more disk space.
> > Canada
>
>
>
> Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
> Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
> Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
> http://www.columbia.edu/~joel