On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Brent Hilpert <hilp...@cs.ubc.ca> wrote: > > I have an HP 7970A - 9-track, 800BPI - with my HP 2116. I wrote monitor > commands to exercise it and do tape dumps from it. > > They're uncommon compared to 1600 & > BPI drives, figured that was because > the 800 standard was older and saw a shorter life before being superseded, > but are such drives that rare or hard to come by? > > (I rather wished it was 1600 so I could read more-common tapes.)
I have an 800BPI 7970B in a 2113B rack system. I've never gotten around to trying to get it up and running. Are they fairly reliable drives to get going again? I don't have any other 800BPI drives to write any tapes to read with it.
