[rescue] reading old IBM 3490E tape?

[Eric Dittman]

> > A friend of mine in San Francisco needs to get the data off a 3490E
> > tape, which from the limited Web searching I have been doing looks to
> > be some old IBM thing.
> >
> > If anyone has suitable old hardware and can help him out, you can
> > email him directly to <alans at wunderground.com>.
> 
>    3490E is a popular IBM mainframe tape format, and is still 
> more-or-less current.  Drives, unfortunately, are fairly expensive.  I 
> do know they made a SCSI version of the 3490E drive, but I don't know 
> anyone who has one.

I've got a SCSI 3490 drive, but would like to find an inexpensive
SCSI 3490E.
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Eric Dittman
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