7 track tape terminal

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Sat May 8 14:21:14 2004

On Sat, 8 May 2004, William Donzelli wrote:

> I have an extra Mohawk Data Services 7 track (!) tape terminal
> available. Basically, it is a tape drive with a keyboard - oh the weird
> stuff they used to do back then!

The "first" key-to-tape. A pretty useful device, really, for that era.
Tap data directly to tape and then load it onto the mainframe.

But are you sure it's 7-track? I haven't been able to tell for sure on
mine because the head is tucked away such that you can't really see the
surface.

> I have no docs on the thing.

I have a copy of the sales brochure that I found while going through
several thousands documents at the Computer History Museum.

> I should also say that the keyboard on this thing moved the bar as far
> as how bad human engineering can get.

Yep.

> Anyway, I want to make it go away, so if anyone has stuff to trade (no
> micros, please - (cruddy) big stuff or docs are good) or has a little cash
> (were not talking much here folks - scrap value is probably only $100), we
> can deal. I can deliver to VCFeast or anywhere near NY/NJ/CT/RI. I could
> ship it as well, as I do have a sort of crate thing.

How come RCS/RI doesn't want this? It's a nice piece of old iron.

Hopefully someone gets it (someone other than the scrapman). Yours and
mine are the only ones I know of, though I'm sure there are at least a few
more still in existence.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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