Anybody live in Chile? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

2 Sep 2005

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 From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at
siconic.com>

On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Brent Hilpert wrote:

  Granted that dealing wih IBM stuff is difficult
in the absence of the rest of
 the system if you want it be anything other than a big dead artifact (which I
 guess is why you are annoyed with their occupation of your warehouse.) 
Well, I can't be too annoyed since I'm the one that put them there :)  But
that was basically my point: without any real chance of getting a full
system, what's the point of having them?  You can get them running in a
test mode and have a tape being de-spooled from one reel onto a take-up
reel, but that's about it.
 ---snip---

Hi
 I see no reason one couldn't connect it to just about any machine.
Not an original configuration but still, a working setup. One
might even recover data from original tapes this way.
Dwight