29 Jan
2019
29 Jan
'19
11:53 a.m.
On 2019-01-29 14:45, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
A 30+ track head to deal with a variety of tape
formats would be ideal. Not just 7 and 9 but real oddballs -- there are some 10 track 1/2
inch tape formats around. Not to mention that one could read DECtape that way, even if
the head is only 1/2 inch wide (some loss of redundancy in that case).
Are the heads that Bordynuik mentioned still around?
On ebay? IBM 31F7092 36 Track ...