I've got both beige and black drives of this type. They were used in the
Maynard line of tape drives, and are really quite widely used, though
almost no PC-software supports them for "real" backups. Most of the
software I've seen for '95 is limited to floppy tapes and SCSI-II or later
drives. That's a shame, since the GOV went to this format after they
learned that one little 8 mm tape will hold what it takes a pickup truck of
the old open reel 6250 bpi tapes to hold. The button and lamp locations
were quite varied, since exabyte purchased the mechanisms from SONY and
they could be varied a bit.
Dick
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> From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: interesting, interesting.
> Date: Sunday, February 28, 1999 4:59 PM
>
> That's it!
>
> At 11:45 PM 2/28/99 +0000, you wrote:
> >for starters. There's quite a good line drawing halfway down
> >
> > http://www.exabyte.com/suppserv/techsupp/8mm/fullhigh/in0111.html
>
> On this page at step 5 is a drawing of my tape drive. Waaay cool!
> --CHuck
>
Received on Sun Feb 28 1999 - 18:27:36 GMT