Anybody live in Chile?
Dwight K. Elvey
dwight.elvey at amd.com
Fri Sep 2 11:33:50 CDT 2005
>From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at siconic.com>
>
>On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Brent Hilpert wrote:
>
>> Granted that dealing wih IBM stuff is difficult in the absence of the rest of
>> the system if you want it be anything other than a big dead artifact (which I
>> guess is why you are annoyed with their occupation of your warehouse.)
>
>Well, I can't be too annoyed since I'm the one that put them there :) But
>that was basically my point: without any real chance of getting a full
>system, what's the point of having them? You can get them running in a
>test mode and have a tape being de-spooled from one reel onto a take-up
>reel, but that's about it.
>
---snip---
Hi
I see no reason one couldn't connect it to just about any machine.
Not an original configuration but still, a working setup. One
might even recover data from original tapes this way.
Dwight
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