Desperate...Help...HP 9-track drive...

----- Original Message ----- From: John Lawson <jpl15(a)netcom.com> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Sent: Thursday, 14 October 1999 2:35 Subject: Re: Desperate...Help...HP 9-track drive... What are you playing on? IBM 370's? Can't speak about the PDP stuff, but very few hardware related problems with my own Vaxen. My "pet" 6430 was built up out of a straight cabinet with the addition of part of the contents of a seriously bent and twisted 6200. The Microvax II has had nothing done to it but a strip and cleanout of the cabinet. It's been whirring away happily on and off for a year or so. The Vax 6440 I babysit at work hasn't had a spanner on it since I modded the power supply to single phase in 1995, (apart from slinging in additional s/hand cpu's, ram & a SCSI controller). I've had two RA70 drives die on me, and a strange SCSI interface box to some custom Everex HSC mounted 4mm DAT drives died. (So I moved one dat drive to a SCSI based Vaxstation and clustered it...) That's about it. I'm still using the system disk I built in 1995 (RA72) at work and recently added some RA92's & moved up from a HSC50 to a HSC70 etc. I didn't have enough of any one type to do shadowing til yesterday, so that will be the next hoop I learn to jump through. Then I can do it to my "pet" Vax 6430 system (RA70's/90's x many)..... It's good having the same stuff at work and at home to play on....... Yeah, me too... Cheers Geoff Roberts Computer Systems Manager Saint Mark's College Port Pirie, South Australia. Email: geoffrob(a)stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au netcafe(a)pirie.mtx.net.au ICQ #: 1970476