27 Jan
2015
27 Jan
'15
4:32 p.m.
On 2015-Jan-27, at 3:58 PM, Mike Stein wrote:
I can't find it at the moment but somewhere I have
a Burroughs digital cassette drive, capstan-less and capable of high-speed bidirectional
seek. AFAIK it uses the standard half-track mono tape format, one track for data and the
other for the clock.
That description fits the tape system used in the HP9830. The tape transport is actually a
"DigiDeck" OEM'd by International Computer Products, out of Dallas, Texas.
The head is non-standard though, in that it R/Ws both half-tracks simultaneously.
Don't know if it'd be useful and not sure if I
want to part with it permanently, but keep it in mind if nothing else works out and you
get desperate ;-)
I don't think it would be of any benefit to the OP's interest over what he already
has to work with.