On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:19 AM, dwight elvey <dkelvey at hotmail.com> wrote:
Just curious, is this basically the cypher drive with HPs GP-IB added or
truly an HP design?
Dwight
I doubt HP would publish two journal articles on the 7980 drive if it
was not their own design.
http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/pdfs/IssuePDFs/1988-06.pdf
Hewlett-Packard Journal, June 1988, Volume 39, Number 3
A Reliable, Autoloading, Streaming Half-Inch Tape Drive
by John W. Dong, Kraig A. Proehl, Ronald L. Abramson, Leslie G.
Christie, Jr., Douglas R. Domel
Streaming Tape Drive Control Electronics
by Bradfred W. Gulp, Douglas R. Domel, Wayne T. Gregory, Jeffery J.
Kato, Gerod C. Melton, Kraig
A. Proehl, David W. Ruska, Virgil K. Russon, and Peter Way