Control Data 9766 drive on epay

[Guy Sotomayor Jr]

Well, crap.

I got rid of my 2 9766’s and all the packs that I had for them a couple of years ago for nothing what this guy is asking for his.  ;-)
I probably still have a pile of heads for them (but they’d probably go to the guy who purchased the drives/packs from me).

What are folks using these types of drivers for?  Media content recovery or just using them as intended?

TTFN - Guy

> On Aug 12, 2019, at 11:09 AM, William Donzelli via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> There is a Make Offer option, and it does look like the seller does
> take offers fairly regularly. I will not be buying it.
> 
> If someone does, I have a huge amount of spares for 976x drives,
> including refurbished heads. It might take a while to find them in my
> mess, however.
> 
> --
> Will
> 
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 1:43 PM P Gebhardt via cctalk
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi list,
>> 
>> Just came across this:
>> 
>> https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Computing-CDC-Magnetic-Peripherals-Control-Data-9766-Storage-Module/143351908424?hash=item2160708848:g:3yEAAOSw1oJdTo9u
>> 
>> Haven't seen one listed in years. The price lets me assume that this offer addresses customers that may use these drives in a production environment or so...
>> I am not aware of museums or hobbyists who have such drives currently in a functional state to read and write from and to 80MB (CDC 9762) or 300MB (CDC 9766) disk packs. Maybe the CHM? ... not taking into consideration the CHM activities related to the Xerox disk cartidge  (2315-equivalent) software archive project.
>> Anybody out there? Would be interesting to know.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Pierre
>> 
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