IBM 729 Tape Drive Video

Sat Jul 9 00:59:54 CDT 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lh4CMz_Z6M

Great video! Just watched this video on YouTube.

The gentleman does some work on a lathe to make new brushes for the reel drive system.

Very interesting stuff... at least it's from the era of Quad.

My question: Did IBM engineer the mechanicals themselves, or were they farmed out to other companies?

You see vacuum columns on this drive that later made it to the AVR-1 and the ACR-25.

Now I need to find out who invented the vacuum column...

Scott Thomas
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