HP 9144A, other stuff

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Thu Nov 4 10:59:13 1999

>Mike,
>
>At 12:29 AM 11/4/99 -0800, you wrote:
>>A HP 9144A tape thing is sitting at one of the salvage places I go by.
>>There is a tape in it, but thats about all I can tell. Location is southern
>>Orange county.
>
> The 9144 is a tape backup. It's HP-IB and can be used EXACTLY like a
>HP-IB disk drive. You can even boot from it but it's S-L-O-W and HP doesn't
>advise it except in case of emergency. It's capacity depends on which tape
>you use in it. The "S" tape has a capacity of 15 Mb and the "L" tape has a
>capacity of about 65 Mb. The 9144s are common but the tapes are sort of
>hard to come by. I could use the tape if you can get it without any
>trouble. The 9144 uses a 16 track tape. The 9145 is similar but uses a 32
>track tape. BTW the 9144 and 9145 both use preformatted tapes. You MUST
>use preformatted HP tapes in them. The 9145 can read but not write 9144
>tapes, I have neve been able to find 9145 tapes.
>
> Joe

Any hints on how the tape might come out?

BTW if it makes you feel any worse one of the guys told me while I was
looking at it that they already pitched a box of tapes for it. ;(
Received on Thu Nov 04 1999 - 10:59:13 GMT