9-Track Magtape Drive ID

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 6/1/2019 1:23 PM, Mark J. Blair via cctalk wrote:
> Thanks!
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> I am taking the whole system. It's in a rack with a PDP-11/34A, a System Industries 9400 controller, and what looks to me like a Fujitsu M228x series hard drive:
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> https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D77fRMFU0AEQtSO.jpg
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> I grabbed the M228x manuals from Bitsavers to look up how the spindle and positioner locks work. I had been planning to de-rack it all so my dad and I could load it into my pickup truck in bite-sized pieces, but I think I would be better off renting a box truck with a lift gate.
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> What are the chances that it's the same PDP-11/34A that Warner did backups on? :D
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> Would the brown panel between the tape drive and computer be a filler panel, or part of the 11/34A? I don't know anything about the system configuration yet other than what can be seen in that picture.
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Is this the system that was on Reddit?

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John H. Reinhardt
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