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Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barton F Bruce)
Tue Sep 20 01:18:59 2011
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:22:43 -0400
From: Barton F Bruce <barton@barton.net>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <9606.1316492099@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Reply-To: Barton F Bruce <barton@gnaps.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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>Does anybody actually *have* a functional 7 track drive?
The folks restoring at least one IBM 1401 probably have several.
http://ibm-1401.info/
Other than replacing a lot of older tab shop hardware, a primary
function for may 1401s was to do card reading and printing for jobs
submitted on 7 track tape to 7094s.
