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 Member 389 Level 43.85 Mar 2006 
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Hardware Identification Help
In the following months - some friends of mine will be "assisting in a project to restore and archive a large amount of historical data from Origin Systems" and Electronic Arts. Can anyone here ID either of the following storage units and the machines they go to?
http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/8...thic002tp9.jpg http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/9...thic003lh6.jpg
This farce... this 20th century Bastille that pretends to be a pocket Democracy... Can you laugh? Can you cry? Can you think? Unlike me, many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment, and will die here like rotten cabbages.
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Member 445 Level 23.83 Mar 2006
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This first is from the Exabyte Mammoth Drive which is obviously a tape drive. They were pretty common back in the day.
And the second one, holy crap that's from an IBM central mainframe but it's going to be pretty damn hard to find out which units will actually run it because it depends on the density of the tape. Is there any manufacturing numbers or IDs anywhere on that thing? 
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Member 389 Level 43.85 Mar 2006
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Someone suggested its a "9-track tape which was sold in three capacities (21 MB/45 MB/170 MB)"
I don't even know if hes right though.
This farce... this 20th century Bastille that pretends to be a pocket Democracy... Can you laugh? Can you cry? Can you think? Unlike me, many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment, and will die here like rotten cabbages.
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