18 Feb
2007
18 Feb
'07
10:18 a.m.
>> Or has anyone taken any surplus 9tracks and
run them on PC's?
You can get Pertec interface cards for both 8 and 16 bit ISA bus, MCA
bus and I bet the PCI bus. I have know several people that ran large
tape drives on PCs using a pertec interface card.
Of course SCSI tape drives will run off a SCSI card in a PC also. The
Kennedy 9610 SCSI front loader was sometimes mated with a PC this way.
We had a person in Oregon in the 1990s that got the Department of
Motor Vehicles registration list on reel tape and converted it to CDs
and sold it on a quarterly basis untill it was made illegal because of
identity theft. He worked it uout using a pertec interface in a IBM
PC. I think he used a Qualstor tape Drive with a pertec interface. At
that time DMV would only sell the data on Reel to Reel tapes.
Paxton
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Paxton Hoag
Astoria, OR
USA