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jje@virtech.uucp (Jeremy J. Epstein) writes:

>When I started using the IBM 360 mainframe at the University of
>New Mexico, they still had a 7 track tape drive which was around
>for reading obsolete tapes.
...
>BTW, the 9 track drive had low, medium, and high densities in those
>days: 200 BPI, 556 BPI, and 800 BPI.  1600 and 6250 hadn't even
>been thought of...

By the way, the 7 track tape drives had a translator and a convertor and
sometime you had to try all the four combination of translator ON/OFF and
converter ON/OFF - what ever that was.

At that time the University of Bonn had a 7090 and a 1410 as spooling machine
(and not to forget Mr. Petri as director!). I was responsible for an additional
360 Model 50. But on warm summer days the 360 should be switched off to let
the 7090/1410 run. So I had to write a spooling program running on the 360,
reading cards in BCD and column binary and writing them whit translator ON or
OFF and convertor OFF or ON (or vice versa:-?) to 7-track tape.
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