It’s pretty simple to archive Commodore 64 tapes, but it’s hard if you want to do it right. Creating the complete archive of the German “INPUT 64” magazine was not as easy as getting one copy of each of the 32 tapes and reading them. The tapes are over 30 years old by now, and many of them are hardly readable any more.
It is great to have people dedicated to archive the past and preserver it. Thanks for all that efforts.
If you have any tape that do you think it has vital material that is not available on the internet it is important to copy to a different media since 80’s and some 90’s tapes are loosing it magnetism as they reach their end of life.
And you can also upload everything to archive.org.
I was surprised to see that my tapes from 80’s, recorded by me on C64, were still readable today as they were back then. Also, my old 5.25″ C64 floppies are still performing OK. As for 3.5″ discs from later systems, the situation is worse.