Thanks, Herb. Yes I knew they were on the west coast. I would, of course, much prefer to get one locally. The seller does appear to be experienced in shipping large/heavy items so it might be less of a gamble than most. But of course, local would be better. I've send feelers out to a few of the comp lists hoping to locate one. thanks 73 Eugene W2HX -----Original Message----- From: vcf-midatlantic [mailto:vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org] On Behalf Of Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2018 7:46 PM To: vcf-midatlantic Cc: Herb Johnson Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] WTD: PDP-11 tape drive? On 12/26/18 9:04 PM, W2HX via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I am building my first PDP-11. It is a 11/23+ I would really like to get a real-to-real 9-track tape drive, the manual loading kind.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/192745726868 and https://www.ebay.com/itm/264099860161
I am in NY, willing to drive a few hours or pay for shipping.
73 Eugene W2HX
Note those eBay drives are in California, about as far to ship to NY as anything you've find in the USA. Dave McGuire, could you comment on the challenge of some 3rd party shipping these cross-country? They are suggesting $300/$400 shipping, probably a CYA price I'm guessing. As an aside, seems to me there's likely some east-coast tape drives at lower shipping cost, if one is patient. This comes to my attention because I have a few of those less-desired auto-load or tabletop "real" tapedrives. Likely they won't run 6250 as these two eBay'ed drives will. (shrug) Herb -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey in the USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net preserve, recover, restore 1970's computing email: hjohnson AT retrotechnology DOT com or try later herbjohnson AT retrotechnology DOT info