7 track drive located!

From: Lyle Bickley <lbickley_at_bickleywest.com>
Date: Mon Feb 9 17:43:15 2004

Outstanding!!!

Lyle

On Monday 09 February 2004 14:57, Al Kossow wrote:
> Got a call last week from a local vendor who remembered that I was looking
> for a 7 track drive. He found two (!) as they were going through their
> inventory.
>
> They are EXACTLY what I have been trying to find for a long, long time..
>
> HP7970 tension arm drives with DUAL MODE 7/9 track head assemblies! They
> are capable of reading anything from 7trk 200bpi to 9trk 1600 bpi tapes.
>
> I won't say how much they were (they weren't cheap) but as part of the deal
> he let me go through some of his head stack spares, and I found 14 dual
> mode head stacks! (he let me have five of them with the drives)
>
> --al (doing the Snoopy dance right now!)

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Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
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