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Today's Topics:

1. Re: [off-topic] retro-computing : anyone got (access to) an
IBM 701 tape drive? (Martin Habets)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 18:56:40 +0000
From: Martin Habets <errandir_news@mph.eclipse.co.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] [off-topic] retro-computing : anyone got
(access to) an IBM 701 tape drive?
Message-ID: <20150309185640.GA17326@mph.eclipse.co.uk>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Your local telephone switch will have the 9-track version of this in it,
which I think can read your tape as well.
Unfortunately you won't be able to get in there unless you have a realy
realy good friend in BT... In which case the BT development lab in London
would be your best bet.

I still have some of the 9-track tapes, but I don't ever want to read those
any more :)

Cheers,
Martin

On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 02:49:44PM +0000, Martin wrote:
> Hi all,
> A longitudinal study I am vaguely connected with have discovered
> archives on tape for one of these magnificent old beasts:
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/701-tape.html
>
> Do you know anyone who could read them? I've suggested IBM's mainframe
> division or the national computing museum. Any other thoughts or is it
> time to break out the oscilloscope?
>
> http://www.chrisfenton.com/cray-1-digital-archeology/
>
> Cheers,
> - Martin
>
>
>
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