IBM 3420 9-track tape drives arrrive for restoration. 800 lbs each!
I might have fallen into the deep end. It started with the IBM 360 control panel ( • IBM System/360 Front Panel ). Now I am adding some rather heavy bits to complete the system.

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IBM 729 Tape Drive Magnetic Clutch Job

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IBM MODEL 2420 WITH PHASE ENCODING 1970s COMPUTER MAGNETIC TAPE UNIT PROMO FILM GG46485

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Alto Restoration Part 18 - We crash our disk drive. Mill to the rescue!

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The IBM 1401 compiles and runs FORTRAN II

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Computer History: 1968 IBM 2420 MAGNETIC TAPE DRIVE Intro Announcement (mainframe System 360)

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What was the last IBM ThinkPad?

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Total Idiots at Work Caught on Camera | Best of 2024

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Cold start of a real IBM mainframe - M164

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IBM 1403 Printer

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What Happened to the Cox .049? | The Engine That Couldn’t Survive Modern Childhood

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This Engine Breaks ALL the Rules

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Ken Ross and Paul Laughton demo the IBM 1401

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Recovering Jennifer's childhood Magnabelt tape on my IBM Executary

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HP 3968A Instrumentation Recorder Restoration - Part 1

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1950-1983 Computer History at Lawrence Livermore Nat's Labs, UNIVAC LARC, IBM, CDC, CRAY

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Iomega Ditto Easy 800 Computer Tape Backup Drive - When Tape was King

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Even MORE retro tapes! Recovering ancient data from QIC 80, QIC 3020, and beyond.

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1985 IBM Computer Training Video - Magnetic Tape Subsystem

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HP 9825 Repair - Part 13: if we can fix the tape drive boards, we’ll be fully repaired!

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