Message-ID: <19981208193634.A29025@freebie.lemis.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 19:36:34 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@fgh.geac.com.au>,
        Michael Sokolov <msokolov@harrier.Uznet.NET>
Cc: pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au
Subject: Re: 9-track tape interfaces
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On Tuesday,  8 December 1998 at 19:49:40 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On 8 Dec 1998, Michael Sokolov wrote:
>>> (I'm sure someone will now chime in about the days when Univac
>>> UniServo drives ruled the earth...)
>>
>>    Just out of curiosity, what are they?
>
> Big BIG tape drives - real Sci-Fi material :-)

UniServo was UNIVAC's name for all its tape drives, at least as long
as I was involved with them.  They were all vacuum column jobs, but
some were definitely ``cheap'' ones, such as the UniServo 6 and 12,
which were intended for smaller machines.  IIRC the latest ``big''
ones were the UniServo 16 and 20, at least when I was still involved
with UNIVAC.

Greg
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