Two Kennedy tape drives on govliq

[Al Kossow]

 > OK, I'm just not familiar with 9-track drives in the sense of who
 > manufactures the guts that everyone uses.

OEM drive mfgs

60's       70's       80's      90's

Ampex--->?
Dymec------>HP------------------>
Kennedy------------------------->Bought by Shugart
CDC------------------------->Laser Magnetic Storage
       Digidata--------------------->
       Wangco-->Cipher----------->
       PEC---->Pertec------------>
                           Qualstar--->
                           M4 Data---->



HP 7970 drives look a LOT like Kennedy 9100's

Lots of others primarily in mainframes (STC,
Telex,...)

Those two drives in the pics are fairly old incremental
transports.