7 track drive located!

From: Jim Davis <jimmydevice_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Mon Feb 9 18:54:11 2004

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!)
>
>
>
Sounds like the HOLY GRAIL of tape drives, I guess we know that you'r
going to be doing with
the rest of your life :-)
Jim Davis.
Killer rabbit joke omitted.
Received on Mon Feb 09 2004 - 18:54:11 GMT