16 May
2008
16 May
'08
3:16 p.m.
On 15 May, 2008, at 23:04, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
PS: Also how may on this list still use mag tape
with the vintage equipment?
I do, but my Ampex drives use analogue tape type spools rather than
the later 'industry standard' ones. They are half inch but ten track
not 7 or 9 and because of the smaller hole, with normal thickness
tape they got 3200 feet on a spool rather than 2400 feet. The machine
optionally used one inch or quarter inch analogue spools on different
decks, and the one inch transports ran at 150 inches per second.
Roger Holmes