45ips tension arm 800/1600 looking at the 'density' slide switch make shure you get the cables and controller board if you don't take the whole system On 6/1/19 10:56 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:

On 6/1/19 11:23 AM, Mark J. Blair via cctalk wrote: it is the top half of the 10.5" CPU chassis the tape controller is probably internal to the cpu and with have three ribbon cables going from the drive to the controller (read,write and control) there should be a 26 and 60 pin ribbon cable going to the smd drive from the SI and a unibus cable from the SI to the CPU

On 6/1/2019 1:23 PM, Mark J. Blair via cctalk wrote: Is this the system that was on Reddit? -- John H. Reinhardt PRRT&HS #8909 C&O HS #11530 N-Trak #7566

On 6/1/2019 5:24 PM, Mark J. Blair via cctalk wrote: Congrats!!? Should be fun to play with.? I just picked up a Micro PDP-11/53 which is about the biggest I can fit into my office/computer room.? lol -- John H. Reinhardt PRRT&HS #8909 C&O HS #11530 N-Trak #7566

Van: Mark J. Blair via cctalk<mailto:cctalk at classiccmp.org> Verzonden: zondag 2 juni 2019 00:25 Aan: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts<mailto:cctalk at classiccmp.org> Onderwerp: Re: 9-Track Magtape Drive ID Yes. I?ll be fetching it next weekend. I?m excited! I wonder if the hard drive is still usable, and if there is anything interesting on it? By a chance meeting with my neighbor today, I learned he has a bunch of pallet racking from a defunct business he emptied out. He offered that I could go grab some for myself. He also mentioned that he planned to bring some to his farm next door to me before he sells off the rest. Since I?m planning to rent a truck next weekend anyway, I offered to help out by hauling for both of us in exchange for taking a skim off the top of the pile. It?ll be a busy weekend! -- Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> http://www.nf6x.net Mark, you probably know ? It is best to get a truck with a tail lift. Then you can roll the entire rack into the truck. No hassle with disassembly and making notoes how everything was routed. BTW, the disk drive in the bottom is *heavy*. You could lift it by yourself, but that Is not very clever. Better lift it with two persons. The same goed for the Kennedy tape drive ? heavy! And the 11/34, in a 10.5? box will be heavy at the rear side where the transformer and power supplies are. So, disassembly will give you 3 heavy items best lifted by 2 guys. Leaving it in the rack and pay a bit more for a truck with tail lift, is a wise decision for your back! Regarding the rubber rings on the hubs of the tape drive, I remember that somebody once told that when the rubber tension is weak (because the ring diameter got a bit bigger, you can get the ring back to its original shape by putting it in warm water. Worth a try if needed ? Henk, PA8PDP