[rescue] Big tape drives

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Sun Oct 13 11:46:56 CDT 2002


On Sunday, October 13, 2002, at 12:00 PM, Eric Webb wrote:
> Looking at Claude's web page (really, really old computers), I 
> suddenly became
> interested in trying to find one of these old, upright magnetic tape 
> readers.
> I thought it might be fun to gut it and put 19" rails inside... I 
> assume the
> front covers on these things can be made to hinge....
>
> Any cloo where these can be found?

   Heh, good luck.  An upright 9- or 7-track drive would be very, very 
difficult to find these days.

   I'm surprised you could look at Claude's page, with the underscore in 
there and all.  That URL didn't make it past my cache.

      -Dave

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Dave McGuire          "PC users only know two 'solutions'...
St. Petersburg, FL       reboot and upgrade."    -Jonathan Patschke



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