15 Jan
2006
15 Jan
'06
1:42 p.m.
Philipp Hachtmann wrote:
It ist a Honeywell 4120 Magnetic Tape Drive
* 1/2-inch seven channel
Ah hah, matches the
heads from the one my friend dismantled,
* Date of purchase approx. april 1970
interesting.. getting kind of late for 7 channel,
* weight: 400 lb... uff.....
.. that too matches
up with what my friend reported :/
Today I also found the complete controller...!
If you're going to try to interface it to something more modern I wonder if
you'd be better off skipping the controller and working directly with the drive...