From: "Al Kossow" <aek_at_spies.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: Mature technology, was Re: 7 track tape drives
> Rumour has it that Al Kossow has managed to do without the formatter, but I have no further information.
>
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> The current state of the project is a friend of mine fabricated a shim for me to mount
> a Cipher 7 track head on a Qualstar 1052 transport. I haven't said much about what I'm
> doing because I wanted to buy enough cheap 1052's on eBay for experimentation (I have
> about 10 of them now)
Being the qualstra distributor for Denmark, I have at least 2 "decommissioned" 1052's. I also have 2 new read formatters.
Nico
Received on Fri Aug 29 2003 - 12:35:30 BST