I can recommend this drive. Very solid units and used on a lot of Sun installations, which usually included the extra 256K buffer option. Yes, it's heavy, particularly if you install it in an EIA rack--you should have the heavy-duty mounting kit for it.
I picked mine up as a new unit--surplused as a defective unit from Intel. Turns out that the AC power jumpers were set wrong. Sometimes you get lucky... --Chuck On 9/27/23 21:34, Len Shustek via cctalk wrote: > I bought this giant GCR tape drive on eBay five years ago, > http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/fujitsu/_brochures/M244X_Brochure_1984.pdf > hoping to be able to use it to extract analog signals from 6250 BPI > tapes to feed into my decoding program. > https://github.com/LenShustek/readtape > > I failed to figure out how to get the right signals out, and eventually > abandoned the project. I now need the space it takes, so I'm offering it > for free before consigning it to the landfill. It's big (20" x 24" x 30" > on the wheeled stand I built) and heavy (160 lbs) so I won't ship it. > Pickup only, on the San Francisco peninsula.
