LaundryMan2008

• What is the real name for this, looks like a piece of punch tape wrapped around a drum, it’s on an ibm 1404 029 keypunch machine.

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• Ampex DST tape drive mega tapes

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• Just got myself a DAT160 tape drive

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• Sony SAIT-2 helical scan data cartridge

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• Sony 12” WORM drive spinning up a WDM-6DL0 WORM optical disk cartridge

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• Using the wayback machine is quite slow for me and please enlighten me on searching if I’m doing it wrong

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• A highly anticipated video has finally come out about the Sony 12” WORM drive!

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• As requested: The CREO 1TB optical tape WORM storage system from 1989

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• Team 47 DOTS optical tape archival system

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• Picture of the day: ATG Cygnet 12” WORM optical drive

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• Picture of the day: RedWood SD-3 50GB helical scan tape drive and cartridges

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• StorageTek Nearline tape robot video

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• A StorageTek 9490 cartridge

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• Remember these?

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• Got this relic from a family member working at a robotics company

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• Best SCSI card (or set of cards) to cover all bases

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• I wonder what the rarest floppy disk color is

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• Where could I obtain one of these or multiple of these tape cartridges?

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• Found some grainy images of a SAIT tape drive, only makes me want one even more

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• Retro equipment postage bingo

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• Here is the updated chart with optical libraries included

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• Decided to draw up most tape libraries that were available at the time to scale

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• A beautiful feat of engineering on this StorageTek tape drive

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• Messed with something at the back in work experience waiting for a decision

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• Tasked with testing this adapter from work experience to add to the future museum

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• Decided to draw what a Sony SAIT tape drive might look like on the inside

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• Similar format to the StorageTek 9490 called the E-Cart

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• More marvels of engineering (HP full height LTO-4)

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• Did you ever have a case where you had to just shake the bottle of champagne and pass it on to someone else?

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• Born in the wrong time for this really cool stuff

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• IBM LTO-4 tape drive (old mechanism)

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• Retro PC in Initial-D that I pirated (Netflix removed it a week ago when I intended to watch it soon), not to guess but to show and tell

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• Should I archive these Microsoft tech binders of discs and if so, how should I put these on Archive.org (best method to put them up)? (I have no keys though at all)

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• Done relabeling tons (small snippet of them) of Floppy/Zip disks using lined paper (very cheap compared to 100 labels and are fold over)

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• My computer at work experience wiping floppy disks to be saved (2nd/3rd image is it’s death when I accidentally dropped it but I’m fixing it up soon and I believe it will still boot despite the drop)

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• Dropped LTO tapes, need a guide on talking apart and putting back together

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• Toshiba T5200/100 laptop in recycling place, tasked with getting it to work

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• My crush’s computer problems resolving themselves

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• Trouble In Paradise Iomega Zip and Jaz testing software not detecting Zip disk, Trouble In Paradise says you can’t use regular IDE Zip drives but I have an ATAPI Zip drive which should work and the software doesn’t recognize it despite it reading and writing normally through windows explorer

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• Upgraded to a Zip drive!

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• Zip and Jaz internal drive colors

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• What software is available to test removable media

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• How much do you usually pay for good floppies with 0 bad sectors

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• My Atari 65XE computer, NES, CRT TV and my retro gaming shelf

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