[Gllug] Very large tape drive!

[Steve Cobrin]

ok, I've got to ask this....

Has anybody got access to a paper tape reader? I've some very old college 
tapes, I'd love to get the data off!

 -- Steve


On Tuesday 21 May 2002 19:03, Chris Bell wrote:
> 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.


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