Re: University credentials used by third parties

[Nate johnson <njj () NJJ-ASSOCIATES COM>]

Greetings Everyone:

Wasn't that solution in the same cabinet as CCL4?

With best regards,

Nate


On Aug 23, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Jones, Dan wrote:

> 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
> -----
> 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
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