9 track tapes - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

30 Jan 2002

On Jan 30, 18:19, Dave McGuire wrote:
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  On January 30, Matt London wrote:
    Quick question, I've got a Cipher F880 here
(no tapes yet - anyone in
 the UK wanna help out? :&) and someone just asked me what the maximum
 capacity of the drive is.... 
   The Cipher F880 is a 1600bpi drive, if memory serves.  It might also
 do 800bpi.  Capacity depends on the block size...but on average, at
 1600bpi on a 2400' reel, you'll get about 40MB or so. 
That's what I thought, but I didn't want to be the first to reply because
I'm not really sure.  If it does support both 800bpi and 1600bpi, and
you're in the UK not too far from York, I have an 800bpi tape which I can't
read on my 1600bpi drive, and would like copied sometime.  It's an original
7th Edition distribution tape from the UK distribution centre at HWU, and
I've wanted to put it on the PUPS archive for a long time.  Apart from the
fact that it's probably the tape used for the machine sitting a few feet
away frm me, which also came from HWU.

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