7 May
2015
7 May
'15
7:35 p.m.
On 2015-May-07, at 2:52 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 05/07/2015 01:45 PM, Todd Killingsworth wrote:
Museum pic:
http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/382511/tape-transport-contro…
I still think full-size vacuum-column drives are the coolest things, but I expect these
ones are nowhere near me.
Breaking them into pieces would be heresy - I suspect they'll find a destination given
the value of old-mainframe-anything these days.
Like this? 1200 POUNDS? Yikes!
http://www.vintchip.com/DOCUMENTS/CONTROLDATA600-1B.jpg
Really great (7 track) drives; substantially over-engineered as compared to, say, a 65x
drive. The 604 wasn't quite as fast as the look=alike 607, but nothing to sneeze at.
If you've got 160A, 3000-series or 6000-series machine (and associated controller),
it'd be a really great drive to have. 