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Old 4th Jan 2019, 10:49 pm   #15
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Default Re: Vintage computers abandoned in factory

I think they're the Memorex tape subsystem 3220/3228

see here :

https://mrxhist.org/docs/Ronc_5522.pdf

along with IBMs 3420 tape drives, a wonder of mechanical tape transport - able to open the tape spool case, thread the tape and then shuffle it back and forth at alarming speed past a bi-directional capstan and up and down two vacuum columns. Mesmerising to watch !

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