7 Oct
2015
7 Oct
'15
12:46 p.m.
On 2015-Oct-06, at 11:24 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
However, I am still looking for a an 800 BPI
NRZI-capable drive.
I have an HP 7970A - 9-track, 800BPI - with my HP 2116. I wrote monitor commands to
exercise it and do tape dumps from it.
They're uncommon compared to 1600 & > BPI drives, figured that was because the
800 standard was older and saw a shorter life before being superseded, but are such drives
that rare or hard to come by?
(I rather wished it was 1600 so I could read more-common tapes.)