29 Aug
2003
29 Aug
'03
1:35 p.m.
From: "Al Kossow" <aek(a)spies.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: Mature technology, was Re: 7 track tape drives
Rumour has it that Al Kossow has managed to do without
the formatter, but I have no further information.
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The current state of the project is a friend of mine fabricated a shim for me to mount
a Cipher 7 track head on a Qualstar 1052 transport. I haven't said much about what
I'm
doing because I wanted to buy enough cheap 1052's on eBay for experimentation (I
have
about 10 of them now)
Being the qualstra distributor for Denmark, I have at least 2 "decommissioned"
1052's. I also have 2 new read formatters.
Nico