[rescue] no more nines

[Boatman on the River of Suck]

Not only that, IBM/Adstar makes loads and loads of 9-Track tape still.
And they will for the forseeable future.

Peace...  Sridhar

On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:

> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 15:41:20 -0500
> From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
> Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> To: Joshua D Boyd <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
> Cc: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [rescue] no more nines
>
> On January 9, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > The last orders for brand new 9 tracks are being taken now.  I'm surprised that
> > they are ceasing production in a world that still manufactors PDP11s.
> >
> > See: http://www.emaglink.com/Articles/17Dec01.htm
>
>   I thought HP was still making the 88780 family of 9track drives.
> There are huge numbers of 9track drives still in service in many
> industries.
>
>      -Dave
>
> --
> Dave McGuire
> St. Petersburg, FL         "Less talk.  More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
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