Advice for tape drive repair / maintenance

[Alexandre Souza]

>>     But surely you wouldn't buy one to create a datalogging system.
> Actually, I just did...
> Having bought one 'for interest' and seen how well made it is (well, it's
> HP from the good days of HP :-)). the availalbe I/O, the repairability
> (all standard chips, a few PALs and ROMs, but nothing large and custom)
> and the easy-to-use BASIC and Pascal, I did, indeed, buy another one of a
> different model on E-bay (they don't go for ridiculous prices,
> fortuanetly), to use as a data logger/control machine.

    I have a curiosity in doing the same. HP/UX machines seems to be great 
hackeable tools for any kind of instrumentation control. But as soon as I 
get a GPIB card for my PC, I don't think I'll look behind anymore.

    BTW, it would be great to buy some (more) HP stuff for my lab. Today I 
got a HP Vectra computer! :D My HP 1662A logical analyzer will sit on top of 
that :D