7 track drive located!

From: Jay West <jwest_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Mon Feb 9 20:47:23 2004

The 7970 mag tape interface is VERY bizarre, not SCSI, not Pertec.... it's
an odd odd animal. Not likely to be hooked up to a PC.

Jay West
----- Original Message -----
From: "ed sharpe" <esharpe_at_uswest.net>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 8:45 PM
Subject: Re: 7 track drive located!


> awesome Al!
>
> are you going to run it on a 2100 , 21mx or interface it to PC?
>
> ed sharpe
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Al Kossow" <aek_at_spies.com>
> To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 3:57 PM
> Subject: 7 track drive located!
>
>
> >
> > 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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