9 Apr
2010
9 Apr
'10
12:53 p.m.
It was made by MPI / CDC. I have two of them, one a demo from them. As
far as I know the unit was manufactured in Pennsylvania, with materials
from vendors near the plant there, and in the plant,
not farmed out. I
can check with the project engineer and see.
Jim
On 9 Apr 2010 at 14:21, Michael Lee wrote:
I rescued this thing from a computer store in the
area a couple years
ago, and I think it's time to pass it on. From what I was told and
what I can tell, this is a CDC 9-track SCSI tape drive that was
removed from it's original rack/chassis. At the time, this computer
store used it to do some data recovery on some 1980 census tapes from
Chicago, and they had rigged this to a more modern SCSI based PC to do
so. So I don't know what condition it is currently in, and no idea if
it works still, but it did before it was stashed away into storage
from what I understand.
From the photos, this may in fact be a rebadged Fujitsu drive. ISTR
that CDC used
them. Regardless, it's going to be heavy--bring
friends.
--Chuck