9 Feb
2004
9 Feb
'04
8:45 p.m.
awesome Al!
are you going to run it on a 2100 , 21mx or interface it to PC?
ed sharpe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Al Kossow" <aek(a)spies.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 3:57 PM
Subject: 7 track drive located!
Got a call last week from a local vendor who remembered that I was looking
for a 7 track drive. He found two (!) as they were going through their
inventory.
They are EXACTLY what I have been trying to find for a long, long time..
HP7970 tension arm drives with DUAL MODE 7/9 track head assemblies! They
are
capable of reading anything from 7trk 200bpi to 9trk
1600 bpi tapes.
I won't say how much they were (they weren't cheap) but as part of the
deal
he let me go through some of his head stack spares,
and I found 14 dual
mode
head stacks! (he let me have five of them with the
drives)
--al (doing the Snoopy dance right now!)