17 Jun
2005
17 Jun
'05
6:12 p.m.
Al wrote:
You may want to compare your drive to the
documentation on the
HP 88780 under bitsavers/pdf/hp/tape
Lyle wrote:
These 9 track SCSI tape drives (HP 88780) were AKA
7979A, 7980A,
7980XC/SX.
The were OEMed by a LOT of manufacturers, including IBM, Sun, Tandem, etc.
Note that most of the OEM'd drives were nearly identical to the generic
HP drive. The IBM 9348, though, has an entirely different control
panel (not just different legends). I have no idea how much difference
there was to the innards.
Eric