ID help, Ampex tape drive and other things.

[Jon]

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Pontus Pihlgren <pontus at update.uu.se> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm about to go on a small road trip to pick up some computer gear. I'm
> curious about what I'm actually getting :)
>
> http://www.update.uu.se/~pontus/slask/L%C3%B6fberg-haul/
>
> I know what the Siemens and IBM things are, but:
>
> What system would the the Ampex Series 800B have been used with?

I think it's an airborne unit for recording flight measurements, seems
14 tracks on half-inch tape were standard. Apparently model 800 was
introduced by Ampex in 1955.