You could try: http://www.jrfmagnetics.com/
Tom On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 3:06 PM Gary Oliver via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 2/8/22 14:14, Wayne S via cctech wrote: > > Searched a lille bit for Western Magnetics. Here’s a site that has some > surplus heads, even a western magnetics onebut probably not the correct > one. There is a corporate charter record for Western Magnetics in Minnesota > dated 1964. Maybe this is the same company. There’s also a tape head from > Michigan Magnetics. Maybe a merged company? > > > > https://www.surplussales.com/Equipment/magnetic-tape.html > > > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > On Feb 8, 2022, at 13:05, Ron Pool via cctech <cct...@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > > > > > So it sermsdectape heads are special. I don’t think Dec would have the > desire to make them internally so they probably contractef with a company > already set up to do that. Who were the big tape head manufacturers at that > time? Does anyone know? > > > > A photo of the back of a TU56 DECtape head can be seen at > https://www.pdp8online.com/tu56/pics/head_label.shtml?small . > > The head has a label on it that reads: > > Western Magnetics > > Glendale Calif. > > Record > > 7282 > > > > I've never seen a TU56 in person and have no idea if they have separate > read, write, and erase heads or some other combo. The "Record" notation on > the above head's label hints to me this might be a write head. > > > > I found that and other DECtape photos at > https://www.pdp8online.com/tu56/tu56.shtml . > > > > -- Ron > > > > > Thanks. Hadn't seen the Minnesota information. Found some references > but not actual company info. Did find a reference somewhere it Canada, > but I couldn't tell if it was original or successor company. At any > rate, no web presence nor telephone numbers found (yet.) > > I've dealt with the SurplusSales (of Nebraska) many times. His prices > are usually pretty high (not obscene, but just not 'surplus' prices I'm > used to.) However, he is a first-rate dealer and when he says something > is so, you can count on it. Never had problem with anything I was > willing to *PAY* for. I scanned the list you provided and found only a > few 'digital' devices, unfortunately. I suspect from 7 and 9 track mag > tape drives. I will scan his site and send him a ping so he'll be on > the lookout. > > -Gary > > >
