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Hi RTC, thanks for the great data on the old tape units. I see you changed the formatting a bit. Does the table on the right and text on the left not work on your screen? -- Austin Murphy 13:12, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Another article on IBM 9 Track should probably be started for the drives that they introduced starting on the System/360. But I don't have much info on them yet... -- RTC 16:34, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
I know DEC sold IBM compatible 7-track tape drives for their 36-bit PDP-10 computers, the KA10 and KL10 processors for sure. A bit of research just now indicates GE and then bought by Honeywell's 36-bit computers also used 7 as well as 9 track tapes as a vaguely remember WRT to the Multics version. No way these companies bought drives from IBM, although the difference between a 7 and 9 track drives once the latter came out would be as little as different heads and related electronics. Hga ( talk) 15:53, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
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Hi RTC, thanks for the great data on the old tape units. I see you changed the formatting a bit. Does the table on the right and text on the left not work on your screen? -- Austin Murphy 13:12, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Another article on IBM 9 Track should probably be started for the drives that they introduced starting on the System/360. But I don't have much info on them yet... -- RTC 16:34, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
I know DEC sold IBM compatible 7-track tape drives for their 36-bit PDP-10 computers, the KA10 and KL10 processors for sure. A bit of research just now indicates GE and then bought by Honeywell's 36-bit computers also used 7 as well as 9 track tapes as a vaguely remember WRT to the Multics version. No way these companies bought drives from IBM, although the difference between a 7 and 9 track drives once the latter came out would be as little as different heads and related electronics. Hga ( talk) 15:53, 21 February 2017 (UTC)