7 track tape terminal

From: ed sharpe <esharpe_at_uswest.net>
Date: Sun May 9 12:41:52 2004

there really are not too many of these around......

they were scrapped by the pile load as many folk that re-used equipment for
hobby purposes had no use for them. but..... they are indeed part of the
history of things.

ed sharpe

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From: "Nico de Jong" <nico_at_farumdata.dk>
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Subject: Re: 7 track tape terminal


> From: "William Donzelli" <aw288_at_osfn.org>
> Subject: 7 track tape terminal
>
>
> > 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!
>
> Back in 69-70, I was an operator in a shop where they used Mohawk data
entry
> systems for (mainly) salary-related work. The model they used, only had 1
> reel. The "used" part of the tape was just falling down into a drawer. The
> systems worked like shit (sorry to say so), as we had read errors on just
> about every tape we attempted to read. We read them on 9-track IBM drives.
> One day, IIRC, we started to read them (about 20 tapes or so), at 1600. We
> were supposed to be finished at 5-ish, but had to sweat through countless
> errors, cleaning cycles, etc. until we sort-of finished at 2100. Some
tapes
> just couldnt be read, on any of the 5 drives we tried.
>
> Nico
>
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