IBM Sterling Forest probably has one. They have at least one of pretty well everything in their DR center.
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 6:05 PM, William Donzelli <[email protected]>wrote: > > I've been asked to locate a 7 track tape drive in the DC area. > > > > Would anyone know of one? > > Can we ask why someone needs a 7-track? > > If it is to read some old, forgotten tapes with important data, I > suggest strongly that you contract with one of the companies that > specialize in reading obsolete formats - the guys that have the > experience and know where all the pitfalls are. Chances are these 7 > track tapes are probably ancient, and will need all sorts of gentle > prep work to get successful reads. > > If you need to write to a 7 track tape - well, that will leave most of > us wondering why - but the same guys probably can do it. If it is a > *very* small amount of data, I may be able to write it with an old > Mohawk key to tape terminal I have, but it has been years since I > played with the thing. > > -- > Will > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
