[1401_team] Re: [SCC_Active_Members] Seeking functioning 7-track tape drive

[Robert B Garner]

Margaret,

How many 7-track tapes do you want to read-in?
If it's only a few, you might try contacting Paul Pierce.

Paul has a sophisticated setup for reading old 7-track tapes,
as you can see from his web site:
http://www.piercefuller.com/collect/proj.html

Although I can not speak for his availability (!),
he was recently able to successfully read a 40-year-old 7-track
tape for the CHM's 1401 restoration project.
(I've cc'd him on this email.)

- Robert


IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA
Office:  408-927-1739
Mobile: 408-679-0976
robgarn at us.ibm.com





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06/20/2006 01:33 AM
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A list for participants in the IBM 1401 Restoration at the Computer 
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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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