17 Jun
2017
17 Jun
'17
11:40 a.m.
On 06/17/2017 11:37 AM, Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
UNIVAC 1540 Magnetic Tape Unit...I wonder if anyone has a 800 BPI, NRZ Master Head Alignment Tape (skew tape) to donate to VCF.
7 track or 9 track? The Univacs are pretty old even for "vintage".
Also, as Dave McGuire noted, a lightly-used tape from a known-good drive will be useful. In the floppy-disk world, I use several diskettes each from a known good drive to validate "alignment".
That wasn't me. But yes, that can be useful for rough validation.
Seems to me, there's likely several boxes of mag-tapes in the inventory.
Yes, I brought a few boxes several years ago. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA