9 May
2004
9 May
'04
12:41 p.m.
there really are not too many of these around......
they were scrapped by the pile load as many folk that re-used equipment for
hobby purposes had no use for them. but..... they are indeed part of the
history of things.
ed sharpe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nico de Jong" <nico(a)farumdata.dk>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: 7 track tape terminal
From: "William Donzelli"
<aw288(a)osfn.org>
Subject: 7 track tape terminal
entry
I have an extra Mohawk Data Services 7 track (!)
tape terminal
available. Basically, it is a tape drive with a keyboard - oh the weird
stuff they used to do back then!
Back in 69-70, I was an operator in a shop where they used Mohawk data systems for (mainly) salary-related work. The model
they used, only had 1
reel. The "used" part of the tape was just falling down into a drawer. The
systems worked like shit (sorry to say so), as we had read errors on just
about every tape we attempted to read. We read them on 9-track IBM drives.
One day, IIRC, we started to read them (about 20 tapes or so), at 1600. We
were supposed to be finished at 5-ish, but had to sweat through countless
errors, cleaning cycles, etc. until we sort-of finished at 2100. Some
tapes
just couldnt be read, on any of the 5 drives we
tried.
Nico
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