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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
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Ken Shirriff on Twitter: "Here's the vintage IBM 729 tape drive loading a tape in slow motion so you can see the multiple steps: the head is lowered, the reels spin slowly,
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Ken Shirriff on Twitter: "The iconic IBM 729 tape drive could store the equivalent of 100 boxes of punch cards on one tape. One of the drives at @ComputerHistory quit working, so
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Ken Shirriff on Twitter: "The IBM 729 is the classic mainframe tape drive with its spinning reels. It stored the equivalent of thousands of punch cards on a spool of magnetic tape.
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