27 Sep
2023
27 Sep
'23
11 p.m.
I can recommend this drive. Very solid units and used on a lot of Sun
installations, which usually included the extra 256K buffer option.
Yes, it's heavy, particularly if you install it in an EIA rack--you
should have the heavy-duty mounting kit for it.
I picked mine up as a new unit--surplused as a defective unit from
Intel. Turns out that the AC power jumpers were set wrong. Sometimes
you get lucky...
--Chuck
On 9/27/23 21:34, Len Shustek via cctalk wrote:
I bought this giant GCR tape drive on eBay five years
ago,
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/fujitsu/_brochures/M244X_Brochure_1984.pdf
hoping to be able to use it to extract analog signals from 6250 BPI
tapes to feed into my decoding program.
https://github.com/LenShustek/readtape
I failed to figure out how to get the right signals out, and eventually
abandoned the project. I now need the space it takes, so I'm offering it
for free before consigning it to the landfill. It's big (20" x 24" x
30"
on the wheeled stand I built) and heavy (160 lbs) so I won't ship it.
Pickup only, on the San Francisco peninsula.