5 Dec
2012
5 Dec
'12
4:37 p.m.
On 12/5/2012 3:50 PM, mc68010 wrote:
I posted this inside another thread but, really it has
nothing to with
that thread and it should have a life of it's own.
I am curious if anyone recognizes what these may be. The seller told
me they were military surplus from the 1960's. I guess I could see
that. The cpu (or whatever) looks pretty hardened. Maybe ships
computers of some sort ?
They aren't very big. Only about 3" tall with magnetic tape on the
bottom.
Here's pics http://imgur.com/a/p489Y
This could be late 70's or early 80's style mini. Reel to Reel didn't
go out in the 60's, and the rack arrangement on the front of the other
box looks late than anything I'e seen on a 60's style system. Looks
more like it could even be into the smaller disk drive peripheral age.
What evidence makes you think it is 60's. I'm guessing the reel to reel
drive, but you may know where they came from and how old they are.
The magnet tape on the bottom gets me though, makes no sense.
If I were pressed, it could be any of a number of early tape ATL's with
backing storage. Storage TEch went down the tubes with something like
this, and were still trying to sell reel to reel then. The concept
really took off with square tapes, but Storage Tech was too early, and
the product didn't work either. Should have stuck to making tape drives.
jim