On Apr 9, 2010, at 3:21 PM, 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.
If you want it, I can ship it at your expense or more than happy to
pass it along any other means possible, it is located in the
Chicagoland area.
Temporarily posted pictures at:
http://www.merry-xmas.net/9track/
CDC 92181 ("Keystone"), Pertec 2-connector formatted interface,
not SCSI. A very nice 1600bpi air-bearing drive. Known to DECheads
as the TU80, where it's mounted horizontally as a top-loader.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL