30 Sep
2007
30 Sep
'07
1:08 a.m.
Well to satisfy my craving for a 9-track tape drive I have decided to start looking for
something I can manage. Yes, I would love a 3240 or that massive IBM 5360 (system/36?) on
the Vintage computer marketplace but I have to get serious and remember that that kind of
gear weighs too much for a teen like me to ship.
Anyways, yeah I am looking for an IBM 9348 scsi tape drive. I was looking into using it in
a little IBM 360 emulator that runs on Ubuntu but mainly it's for bragging rights
(Chicks dig guys with big drives). Now while it is samller it's still hjeavy (if you
alrready have one than you understand me here) so if you want to part with yours PLEASE
promise me that it works before I shell out. It would be nice to get one locally too.
Identification photos can be found on the link below.
http://ripsaw.cac.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/IBM9348.html
Thanks.
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30 Sep
30 Sep
2:20 a.m.
john ball wrote:
Anyways, yeah I am looking for an IBM 9348 scsi tape drive. I was looking into using it
in a little IBM 360 emulator that runs on Ubuntu but mainly it's for bragging rights
(Chicks dig guys with big drives). Now while it is samller it's still hjeavy (if you
alrready have one than you understand me here) so if you want to part with yours PLEASE
promise me that it works before I shell out. It would be nice to get one locally too.
If you're flexible on the packaging, there are a number of SCSI 6250 bpi
9-track tape drives that were offered by DEC, HP, etc. Many were shipped
in tabletop trim instead of rackmount. A search for eBay auction
#220154267195 will show you such a unit from Overland Data currently
located in Allantown, PA.
Good luck,
--Steve.
6:06 a.m.
--- Steven M Jones <classiccmp at crash.com> wrote:
john ball wrote:
Anyways, yeah I am looking for an IBM 9348 scsi
tape drive. I was looking into
using it in a little
IBM 360 emulator that runs on Ubuntu but mainly it's
for bragging rights (Chicks dig guys with big
drives). Now while it is samller it's still hjeavy
(if you alrready have one than you understand me
here) so if you want to part with yours PLEASE
promise me that it works before I shell out. It
would be nice to get one locally too. If you're flexible on the packaging, there are a
number of SCSI 6250 bpi
9-track tape drives that were offered by DEC, HP,
etc.
The IBM 9348 drive is a great drive - I wish I had one
too. That same drive was sold by IBM, HP and Overland
data with different faceplates. I don't recall who
actually made it, but I seem to believe that it was
HP.
-Ian
10:41 a.m.
On Sep 30, 2007, at 4:08 AM, john ball wrote:
Well to satisfy my craving for a 9-track tape drive I
have decided
to start looking for something I can manage. Yes, I would love a
3240 or that massive IBM 5360 (system/36?) on the Vintage computer
marketplace but I have to get serious and remember that that kind
of gear weighs too much for a teen like me to ship.
Anyways, yeah I am looking for an IBM 9348 scsi tape drive. I was
looking into using it in a little IBM 360 emulator that runs on
Ubuntu but mainly it's for bragging rights (Chicks dig guys with
big drives). Now while it is samller it's still hjeavy (if you
alrready have one than you understand me here) so if you want to
part with yours PLEASE promise me that it works before I shell out.
It would be nice to get one locally too.
Identification photos can be found on the link below.
http://ripsaw.cac.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/IBM9348.html
That drive looks suspiciously like an HP 88780.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007
2:42 p.m.
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Dave McGuire wrote:
Same basic drive, but with a different control panel on it. Also the
HP 7980.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
Identification
photos can be found on the link below.
http://ripsaw.cac.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/IBM9348.html
That drive looks suspiciously like an HP 88780.
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