Message for Joe Heck - re. 7 Track tape drives

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Mon Dec 22 11:38:49 2003

On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, William Donzelli wrote:

> It seems to me that Compass (that warehouse I was clearing out last
> year(s)) had a pair of old 7 track drives. They were actually tape
> terminals made by MDS for Western Union - keyboard, drive, lots of
> (pre-IC) electronics and a little core. I did not get them during my
> deal, and they tried to Ebay a refurbished/in-the-crate one and could not
> get $100 for it. Some clowns wanted it just for the core stack.

Would this be the MDS 1101? A key-to-tape machine? If so, I've got one.
John Lawson was over yesterday and was speculating that it probably had a
7-track drive head. I'd never considered it myself, so it would be quite
a surprise if it is. I'm going to look into it more. It supposedly still
worked when it was given to me (by a couple who used to work for Mohawk
Data Systems in Germany and then Texas).

I also found a sales brochure for this at the Computer History Museum the
other day as I was going through some documents.

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