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I was at an abandoned school the other day and I found a few tapes or data cartridges! The problem is I don't know exactly how to play them so any help would be appreciated! One is a sony premium 150p and the others are travan imation 40gb
Pretty much you don't. AFAIK files are usually stored in a single contiguous data stream, or spread across tapes, so you'd need the original database to retrieve individual files.
Also you'd have to find a compatible tape drive 
edit: Actually, it may be easy considering they're from an abandoned school, i.e. relatively small data infrastructure, but it'd be pretty expensive. Something like this is what you'd need
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/like/1113055 ... e&lpid=107
Damn :/ so if I had the thing off ebay would I then be able to get the data off? The tapes had school concerts from 2002 and stuff so it would be nice to see what it looked like before
Ah neat. Well it's certainly possible with the correct model but you wouldn't know 'til buying it, unfortunately!
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