23 Jan
2015
23 Jan
'15
12:27 p.m.
On 2015-Jan-23, at 6:13 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
On 1/23/15 4:26 AM, Jay West wrote:
I have a HP 7970A, date codes 1970, that uses the same mounting bracket/method, if that
helps the determination.
The A is 800 BPI, darn it, so I can't R/W common 1600 BPI tapes.
Marc wrote...
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[snip] How the hell does the darn bracket work? You'd attach the bracket
first to the rack, then slide in the drive and screw it in to the bracket
*from the inside* of the opened unit, while delicately balancing 130 pounds
of tape drive? Yikes!
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Yep.
This is exactly the way that Kennedy 9000 tape drives mount as well.
I wonder who copied who.