Anybody live in Chile?

[Gil Carrick]

IIRC, the first units I used were 200 bpi!

The vacuum "columns" were instead "rows". They extended about a foot to
either side of the heads.

Gil

> Also, it was only the NEWEST drive that had 6250 bpi.  Mostly 
> we dealt with 800 and 1600 tapes, and with drives that had 
> switchable 7/9 track heads.  I wouldn't call vacuum column 
> drives an icon of EARLY computers...
>