9 Apr
2010
9 Apr
'10
2:02 p.m.
On Apr 9, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
This is a CDC Keystone, not particularly heavy. Are you perhaps
thinking of the Fujitsu M2444A and similar drives?
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
I rescued this
thing from a computer store in the area a couple years
ago, and I think it's time to pass it on. From what I was told and
what I can tell, this is a CDC 9-track SCSI tape drive that was
removed from it's original rack/chassis. At the time, this computer
store used it to do some data recovery on some 1980 census tapes from
Chicago, and they had rigged this to a more modern SCSI based PC
to do
so. So I don't know what condition it is currently in, and no
idea if
it works still, but it did before it was stashed away into storage
from what I understand.
From the photos, this may in fact be a rebadged
Fujitsu drive. ISTR
that CDC used them. Regardless, it's going to be
heavy--bring
friends.