At 10:00 AM 4/13/2024, Paul Berger wrote:
The problem with a lot of these old machines was they relied on a lot of
electro-mechanical devices that would today be replaced by electronics
and a few simple actuators. These mechanical devices need to be
adjusted and maintained and have lots of part
The drive is saved from the landfill! It was picked up by a classic
computing fan at noon this morning.
(And yes, it is Pertec-compatible.)
I bought this giant GCR tape drive on eBay five years ago,
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/fujitsu/_brochures/M244X_Brochure_1984.pdf
hoping to be able to use it to extract analog signals from 6250 BPI
tapes to feed into my decoding program.
https://github.com/LenShustek/readtape
I failed to figur
At Mon, 18 Sep 2023 10:55:13 +0200 (CEST) Christian Corti
wrote:
as it will be soon of importance to us, I am seeking for the systems
engineering manual and drawings, well, everything about the IBM 727 tape
drive (not the 729!). I especially need the module locations charts and
the module schema
> On Aug 5, 2021, at 8:39 AM, Jay Jaeger via cctech
wrote:
> I know Paul well (we were contemporaries at U. WI). He does not
do that very often. He did not indicate any issue with a fire at the
building that contains his collection when I last spoke with him.
>
> He does not actually read "b
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 18:37:17 -0500
From: Cory Heisterkamp
This is a bit of a long shot, but is anyone aware of a successful
method to read IBM Selectric MT/ST tapes?
A museum in Australia has a box of them and are interested in the contents.
At the Computer History Museum we sometimes
At 10:00 AM 4/17/2020, Bob Smith wrote:
...I believe sometime in the late 70s, maybe as late as 1980, a prof
associated with UMass wrote a paper describing an extension of the
PDP8 called 8/X or 8X.
...I believe, my memory is fuzzy, that it was a prof nnmed Stone or
Stoner (perhaps Harold S) who
For the last five years I've been working with Qualcomm and others to
allow the Computer History Museum to release the source code of what
was, in my opinion, the finest email client ever written: Eudora.
It's finally done!
http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-eudora-email-client-source-cod
