The Anonymous Widower

HP 77870 or Similar

I have a similar one to these 9 track tape drive in the cellar.  It was bought for a job for a major bank, but they welched on the deal, so I ended up with a piece of hardware I didn’t want.  At £14,000 too!  And that was in 1995.

HP 77870 or Similar

So it’s sat there just annoying me for 15 years.  It has about 10 hours on the clock and of course some dust, but it is fully enclosed.

If anybody wants one contact me.  I also have the SCSI Interface somewhere, but I suspect it would be best as a plug-in replacement for one that has failed.

Note in the picture there’s a LaserJet IID parked on top of the tape drive.

April 8, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | Computing | Hardware