9 Jan
2006
9 Jan
'06
9:30 p.m.
What I think is interesting is the size, it's a
decidedly small tape
drive, on the DPS-8 we only had what I would call "full size" drives
(think old Sci-Fi shows), on the first set of DPS-6's I dealt with,
we had full size drives, as well, and on the last set, we simply had
ones that were about 5U or 6U. I've *never* seen a 9-Track drive
that size. It looks like it was intended to be used while sitting
down.
I would bet that is from one of their late 1960s/early 1970s
machines. They had a number of small mainframes that all sat pretty low,
like really big desks.
William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org