i'm looking for cables for this if anyone has one to spare or a lead where to find em.
much thanks bob. On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 11:00 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote: > 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. > >
