Quantex 650 / 2200 QIC tapedrive

Oliver, ? don't dump the parts, yet ! I have a Zilog System 8000 in my collection as well, but didn't find time to resurrect it. It's even accessible again since a couple of weeks. Let me check in the upcoming weeks, if a tape-drive is installed in there, and, if so, if it's a DEI, too. Maybe I can be of any help here for you. ? By the way, the Onyx C8000-Series also used very early DEI-tape-drives, but I don't know, if these are of same type as those you have in your System 8000. ? Kind regards, Pierre ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pierre's collection of classic computers : http://classic-computing.dyndns.org/ ________________________________ Von: Oliver Lehmann <lehmann at ans-netz.de> An: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Gesendet: 22:39 Montag, 16.April 2012 Betreff: Re: Quantex 650 / 2200 QIC tapedrive Hi Nico, Nico de Jong <nico at farumdata.dk> wrote: Yeah I had a LR56637 once which came with an 8Bit-ISA card working in a Xenix System from Acer.... Problem is that the 2 or 3 guys I know who posess such a system did not provided copies since years for different reasons (no time, no equipment, no idea where the tape actually is). So as the time goes, the tapes will be less and less readable - if the drives are still working at all (probably not because of the gum wheel....). Looks like I should just dump the parts I have from the S8000 - sad as it was long time my dream to get a working System 8000 :( ? Greetings