On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Marvin Johnston wrote:
> In cleaning out the garage, I ran across three brand new what appear to
> be 8" removeable cartridge units with no manufacturers ID that I
> recognize. These three units are still sealed in their original plastic
> wrapping except for the one I opened to try and find out what it is.
> There are two dates, 11/26/84 on a test report taped to the unit, and
> 10/31/89 loose in the package; both refer to the same serial number. The
> model is DP100 and it requires 24VDC _at_ 3.8A, 5VDC @ 2.5A max, and -12VDC
> _at_ .5A. The only name I recognize is on the Pass/Fail Report and it has a
> PASS.AS.DATAPOINT on it. Anyone have any clues as to what this might be?
Ah, they are probably date carthridges for a Datapoint removeable
carthridge hard drive system. I have a couple of the drives for them (big
suckers).
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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