[Gllug] Very large tape drive!

[Chris Bell]

On Tue 21 May, John Hearns wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 14:20, rdrinkwater wrote:
> > Morning,
> > 
> > This is definately off topic but I hate throwing kit away and it may be 
> > of interest to somebody.
> > 
> > I have a 19" rack mounted, front loading, 2400 ft reel/reel tape drive to
> > jettison.  It has a SCSI interface (standard SCSI commands - tar - etc)
> > and can read/write tapes at 800, 1600, 3200 bpi + 6250 fci.  I also have
> > a load of 1200 and 2400 ft tapes to go with it.
> > 
> > Not used for about a year but was working perfectly (no guarantees
> > given!)
> 
> Oooohhh.... If only I had the room at home.
> Memories (sniffle). All the round tapes are gone from these parts a long
> time ago.
> 
> BTW, please don't scrap this thing!
> I remember reading about NASA being unable to read data from
> some Pioneer mission or other - and I guess this problem is going
> to get worse as time goes on.
> 
> How about seeing if your local hospital radiotherapy or imaging 
> department would be interested?
> I will contact Guys and Tommies - they certainly used round tapes to
> get data from CT scanners.
> I fervently hope that these days everything is done by network DICOM
> transfers - but you never know!
> 
> 
> 
> 
   If anyone has a real use for one, I have a rack mount HP7970E
reel-to-reel data tape drive holding the floor down, 24 pin (IEE?)
connection.

-- 
Chris Bell



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