Al Kossow wrote:
For the 7970
tape drive there ARE the full schematics on bitsavers...
the 7970 series was built by HP, the 7879 is was OEM-ed from STC .
Are you sure? The 7976 was an STC drive, brought in because HP didn't
have a 6250 BPI drive and this was starting to hurt sales by 1983 or
so. I understood the 7978 to be HP's design.
-Frank McConnell