Hi folks!
Today I have visited the place where I will get the tape drive from. I
could not yet get my fingers on the tape (because no key was avaliable
on weekend) but I found the full documentation.
It ist a Honeywell 4120 Magnetic Tape Drive
Some Info:
* Date of purchase approx. april 1970
* From the manual: "... is a Very Low Cost (VLC)" :-)
* 1/2-inch seven channel
* Tape reel size "IBM compatible"
* 15 inch/s
* 200 bpi and 556 bpi resolution <-- !!!
* weight: 400 lb... uff.....
The drive is designed for the Honeywell Series 16 computers. A
controller for the CPU is needed.
Today I also found the complete controller...!
The controller's new price was DM 53,000, the H316 computer with 4K only
ca. DM 40,000, about $10,000 at that time....
Good night,
best wishes,
Philipp
P.S.: If anyone can tell me more about the drive and controller I would
be glad. I'm still missing the software, software manuals and
documentation for the controller (schematic, wirelist, explanation etc).