On 8/11/16 9:21 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > On 08/11/2016 07:36 PM, Al Kossow wrote: >> One of the highest projects I have in the queue is getting one of >> John's M4 9914V drives with 18 track MR heads running in my new lab >> at CHM. > > I've always wondered how far someone would go to retrieve data from > media that's really off the beaten path.
actually, that is to recover 7 or 9 track using an ibm 3480 head stack maybe some day, i'll try respooling a Whirlwind tape and see if I can pull any data off it. I did actually turn up info on the Raytheon drive in the CHM archives, and we have at least one with a head to measure track spacing