17 Aug
2007
17 Aug
'07
6:18 p.m.
Re:
Yesterday I obtained a car-load of HP150-related
stuff. And amongst it
was a pair of HP tape drive,s the 9144 and 9145, which use special HP
pre-formatted tapes.
...
looking at theAustralian museum
(http://www.hpmuseum.net/), I found a
link to a site that impliex these tapes were standard 3M products of the
time ,the format was not custom HP, etc.
IIRC, the HP cartridge tapes were definitely pre-formatted ... something
allegedly done only at the factory. If you wrote on one with a non-HP drive,
it would then be useless in an HP drive. (IIRC, however, there might have been
a way to re-low-level format them on an HP 9144 or HP 9145 drive, but it
required an offline utility program and a lot of time.)
Stan
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Stan Sieler
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