9 Apr
2010
9 Apr
'10
12:40 p.m.
On 9 Apr 2010 at 14:21, Michael Lee wrote:
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.
--Chuck