[rescue] Big tape drives

[Eric Dittman]

>    Those TE16s will go with us to the grave, Josh...they're incredibly 
> difficult to find nowadays.
> 
>    BUT...I'm not sure what kind of drives are on Claude's web page, but 
> I assumed he wasn't talking about anything like a TE16...which is 
> indeed an upright 9-track magtape drive, but really is just a set of 
> rackmount components that can be put in any rack or set up on a table.  
> I assumed from what Eric said that the drive he saw was a big floor 
> standing box that IS a tape drive, not a big rack that contains a tape 
> drive.

We've got a couple of TA91s at work, which are upright floor-
standing tape drives, about five feet high, all of which are
the tape drives themselves.
-- 
Eric Dittman
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