I'm trying to help a friend locate a replacement
tape drive wheel for
an HP 9144 tape drive. [...] He's been working to recover some
archived files from the beginnings of the company he works for,
mostly for historical interest, [...]
I don't know the 9144 number. If that's a QIC drive, I (and probably
numerous other listmembers) have drives that might well work to read
the data, if your friend is willing to trust someone else with copies
of the data (as seems likely since you say "historical interest").
Where are the tapes physically? We might be lucky and find that
someone willing and able is close by....
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