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Ken Shirriff on Twitter: "Old tape drive maintenance at @ComputerHistory. We fixed the door latch on a 729 drive. Also investigated a tape drive malfunction, apparently due to a flaky circuit breaker.
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Ken Shirriff on Twitter: "IBM 729 tape drive repair today @ComputerHistory. The tape moves in the vacuum columns, controlled by vacuum switches. Clutches spin the reels to keep enough slack tape in
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Ken Shirriff on Twitter: "We finally fixed the 1960's IBM mag tape drive @ComputerHistory. Slack tape is held in vacuum columns, with pressure switches to sense the tape position. After probing resistor-transistor
