[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.
> 
>    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. :-)

It's a good thing you said relatively.
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Eric Dittman
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