I've got a 3M DCD drive that's very similar--fixed multi-track head. I've never seen a practical use for it, however, given the terribleness of old QIC carts.
DEI also re-packaged the Exabyte 8mm transports in their own enclosures with their own LCD readouts. I've got one such drive here. --Chuck On 12/14/18 9:46 PM, AJ Palmgren via cctalk wrote: > For view or download: http://bit.ly/2RZK28Q > > I came across this, and noticed that this early of a DEI model was not yet > archived at > > http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dei > > I'm not sure that it is scanned to the requirements of bitsavers, but I > don't have access to the original, so I offer this if it is usable or of > interest to anyone here. > > I'll probably also post it on one of my sites, at http://QICreader.com > > I also just acquired this DEI 301034-2 QIC Tape Drive, and have begun to > reverse-engineer it. > https://ebay.to/2EjyxFn > > Best always,