I was thinking the same thing. Those little reflectors were a b*tch to put
on. I would suggest you look at an Antique shop somewhere. :-)
If you can find any, glue some VERY thin aluminum foil.
Denys
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Art opines, O-how-great-Babylon-has-fallen:
> Hi Denys :)
> Yah... I remember that ... but only if you didn't have to
> cut the first
> 100+ feet of the tape off to get it to work!
>
> In College we got a donation of tapes ... can't remember
> exactly how many... but I remember going thru dozens and
> cutting of the tape to make the thing load and read.... I
> think we paid a buck a tape after we got it to load... still
> have a couple down in the den... doubt they even unspool any longer!
>
> Art "memories! hehe" Bahrs
What? And lose the BOT marker?
P.S. Where does one get the little silver BOT marker replacement kits
these days?
P.S.S. Anyone remember using a tape splicing kit?
Tracy Johnson
Measurement Specialties, Inc.
BT
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> Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I liked the 7980SX
> tape drives. Did you know that at high compression, you
> could store up to, are you ready for this, one gigabyte of
> data, on a 2400 foot reel tape. Wow!
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> It's a garage machine. I wanted to get it running before the
> heat sets in.
>
> After I convert to Buffalo drives, I got a NIC card for it so
> I can put it up on my home network.
>
> Someday I'll need help configuring Network Services on a Classic.
>
> I have both platform 3P and 4 FOS and SUBSYS tapes with
> everything.* So installing NS shouldn't be a problem.
>
> * I mean SUBSYS with EVERYTHING, it was a gift from HP when
> they stopped distribution of MPE/V. I got SPL, FORTRAN,
> COBOL, BASIC, PASCAL, (other s**t I've never even heard of,)
> ... the works.
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> Tracy Johnson
> Measurement Specialties, Inc.
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> > From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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> > Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 10:38 AM
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> > Good for you Tracy! Now tell me, is this system in
> > production or just a
> > hobby?
> >
> > Denys
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> > Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 2:40 AM
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> > Subject: [HP3000-L] Converting A 7980S to a 7980A for a Classic
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> > Having acquired 3 7980 tape drives, two of the A model and
> one of the
> > S model, only the S model worked.
> >
> > But I needed an A model to connect to my HP3000 Micro/XE.
> >
> > The fix was easy, but figuring it out was a little more difficult.
> >
> > This essentially means converting the S model from SCSI to HP-IB.
> >
> > You can't just move the HP-IB card from the A to the S
> model. The S
> > model had only 3 cards in the internal card cage. The
> older A models
> > had 4. The drive's display will neither show an HP-IB ADDR
> or SCSI ID
> > display.
> >
> > So I swapped the A model's 4 internal cards with the S models 3
> > internal cards and voila. My Micro/XE recognized the HP-IB address
> > and it was able to make it's first full backup in 2 years.
> >
> > Now I can move off it's lone 7937 Eagle drive and RELOAD it
> onto some
> > "newer" Buffalo chips I managed to acquire. I think
> someone here was
> > looking for that Eagle.
> >
> > --
> > BT
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> > Tracy Johnson
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