On 12/9/21 3:20 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
Many years ago, a friend gave me an Overland T490 tape drive which has some kind of autoloader attached which takes ten tapes. I was told it came out of a Tandem system. The tapes are square cartridges similar but different to a DEC TK50. I can't find very much information about the drive on the web but there are some hints that it might be compatible with an IBM 3480. It powers up nicely and the fan works and after a short pause, a green LED illuminates. There are only two buttons on the front, "unload" and "format".
CDC made a Patriot drive that used 3480 cartridges, and had a SCSI interface.
They were serpentine drives. The CDC division was "Laser Magnetic Storage Int'l"
Jon
