9 Apr
2010
9 Apr
'10
2:07 p.m.
The SCSI part is just what I was told at the time, I know very little
about this thing. They could have had used additional hardware to make
that happen at the time. So I've gotten a bunch of responses, and
preference will be to those local.
On 4/9/2010 4:01 PM, E. Groenenberg wrote:
Hmm, looks like a vertical mount version of a Dec
TU-80 tapedrive.
I've got 2 of them, very nice units.
It should be a CDC drive. When looking at picture #4, it looks like
it is using a PERTEC type interface, not a SCSI type interface.
Are you sure it was connected using a SCSI interface?
BTW, weight is about 35Kg / 80 Lbs.
Ed
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.
If you want it, I can ship it at your expense or more than happy to pass
it along any other means possible, it is located in the Chicagoland area.
Temporarily posted pictures at:
http://www.merry-xmas.net/9track/
Mike