Antonio Carlini wrote:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/10/2415393.htm
An IBM729 Mark 5 tape drive grabbed the data for NASA.
I presume that this implies NASA had tried and failed to find such a
drive via IBM?
I doubt it. If you throw enough money at them, they'll *build you a
new one*.
Peace... Sridhar
Why don't they just send the tapes to CHM? They have a wall of 729 tape
drives:
And some of them are even working already, it seems, as part of the 1401
restore efforts: