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Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book"

From	Paul_news <paul@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book"
Date	2021-01-21 23:16 +0000
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On 21/01/2021 21:52, Vir Campestris wrote:
> On 20/01/2021 20:14, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>> Paul_news<paul@invalid.invalid>  writes:
> 
>>> The BASF tape drives our site in the 70s/80s had reels above & below.
>>> Those don't look similar, ours had take-up reel behind a door.
>>> Side by side drives were wider, an issue for small sites/many drives.
> 
> Were the reels in the centre, or offset?

Similar to this I think, offset to the left.
<https://users.monash.edu.au/~ralphk/thumb.monash3.jpg>
Take up spool under vacuum slots.
Press 1 button so glass slides down
put tape in auto-load collar on drive
press a button and glass closes, tape loads & readies.

I could not find an image of the drives we had.
Ours were BASF later re-badged as Comparex when we got their m/f.
Not sure who made them and who badged, m/f later badged Hitachi.

> 
>> The DEC TU45 on the VAX had over-and-under reels.
> 
> Given the model number I can look at a picture. It had vacuum chambers 
> to the left of the reels, so the reels were offset to the right.
> 
> Andy

Thread

Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2021-01-18 21:46 +0000
  Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-01-19 01:02 -0800
    Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2021-01-19 10:24 +0000
      Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-01-19 02:43 -0800
        Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2021-01-19 12:00 +0000
      Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" "Kerr-Mudd,John" <notsaying@127.0.0.1> - 2021-01-19 12:07 +0000
        Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-20 12:38 +0000
          Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Paul_news <paul@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-20 19:56 +0000
            Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-01-20 20:14 +0000
              Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-21 21:52 +0000
                Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Paul_news <paul@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-21 23:16 +0000
                Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2021-01-21 18:44 -0600
                Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-22 21:02 +0000
                Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-01-23 12:52 -0800
                Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-24 21:21 +0000
      Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2021-01-19 07:58 -0700
        Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2021-01-19 18:50 +0000
          Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> - 2021-01-22 23:41 -0500
            Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2021-01-23 15:17 +0000
            Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2021-01-23 16:17 -0700
              Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2021-01-24 08:08 +0000
        Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-01-25 17:55 -0800
          Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2021-01-26 08:42 -0700
  Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-01-19 01:03 -0800

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