[SCC_Active_Members] Seeking functioning 7-track tape drive

[Bill Selmeier]

The IBM 1401 Restoration team at the Computer History Museum may be able 
to help you in the future depending on your time table and what you need 
to move the dato to.  This restoration has yet to successfully connect 
their 7 track IBM 729 tape unit to the IBM 1401 and obviously reading the 
data is only part of what you need to accomplish.  What do your source 
records look like, what media are you interested in moving the data to? 
Although the Musuem's resotration team may be able to read the data at 
some time, we might not be able to get it to the media that you need.

Others from that team may have more probing questions.

Bill

On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Margaret Hedstrom wrote:

> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:25:26 -0400
> From: Margaret Hedstrom <hedstrom at umich.edu>
> To: SCC_active at computerhistory.org
> Cc: Myron Gutmann <gutmann at umich.edu>
> Subject: [SCC_Active_Members] Seeking functioning 7-track tape drive
> 
> Hi,
> I'm wondering whether any of you know where one can locate a functioning 
> 7-track tape drive for a data salvage project.  I don't know the specifics on 
> type, brand, vintage, etc., but I would appreciate hearing from anyone with 
> leads.
>
> Margaret
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