HP7879B tape again

Tue Nov 8 08:45:40 CST 2005

>> the 7970 series was built by HP, the 7879 is was OEM-ed from STC .
I have a HP7978B drive...

> Are you sure?  The 7976 was an STC drive, brought in because HP didn't
> have a 6250 BPI drive and this was starting to hurt sales by 1983 or
> so.  I understood the 7978 to be HP's design.
On the power supply's pcb I find an etched HP logo.... So why should the rest be oem?

Btw: When the psu was still working my machine came up with  no error in self test...

Is ist possible that not every commercially available tape hat an eot mark?

Regards,
Philipp :-)