looking for an IBM 9348

[Mr Ian Primus]

--- Steven M Jones <classiccmp at crash.com> wrote:

> john ball wrote:
> >  
> > Anyways, yeah I am looking for an IBM 9348 scsi
> tape drive. I was looking into using it in a little
> IBM 360 emulator that runs on Ubuntu but mainly it's
> for bragging rights (Chicks dig guys with big
> drives). Now while it is samller it's still hjeavy
> (if you alrready have one than you understand me
> here) so if you want to part with yours PLEASE
> promise me that it works before I shell out. It
> would be nice to get one locally too.


> If you're flexible on the packaging, there are a
> number of SCSI 6250 bpi
> 9-track tape drives that were offered by DEC, HP,
> etc. 

The IBM 9348 drive is a great drive - I wish I had one
too. That same drive was sold by IBM, HP and Overland
data with different faceplates. I don't recall who
actually made it, but I seem to believe that it was
HP.

-Ian