Who Loves IBM Tape?

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Sun Jul 17 11:51:32 CDT 2016


re-reading the paper,
"mechanical bit validation" was a little confusing for a while until I remembered that
he also digitizes the tach signal, so he knows the absolute position of the tape.

On 7/17/16 9:41 AM, Al Kossow wrote:

> This is what is in the modified STC 9914V drives shown in this paper use:
> 
> http://storageconference.us/2008/presentations/3.Wednesday/5.Bordynuik.pdf
> 



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