[rescue] Big tape drives

[Dave McGuire]

On Monday, October 14, 2002, at 03:05 PM, Eric Dittman wrote:
>>    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.

   Well there *are* some relatively modern exceptions.  I think we're 
really discussing the very old magtape drives whose vacuum columns go 
all the way to the floor. :-)

        -Dave

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