[rescue] Big tape drives

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
> On Monday, October 14, 2002, at 05:25 PM, Eric Dittman wrote:
> > My mistake, the TA91 is a six-foot tall dual 3480 tape loader.
> > We have two of them (four drives total).
> 
>    Ahh the 3480s.  I don't know much about those.

3480 - isn't that the squared-off 8-track looking tapes? IIRC they grab
one end of the tape and pull it into the drive, reading it all along...
Then when done, it winds the tape back on the cart.

Neat drives...

Lionel 

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Lionel

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