Fairlight-CMI

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "dkevefnzs" <dkevefnzs@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> this is just to let you know that I successfully tried some random DDS, DDS 2 or DDS 3
> streamer to my CMI III - it worked immediately as a drop in replacement for the 8mm
> streamer I had originally got. Not for the same tapes of course :-)

Thanks. But the problem is I have a huge library of 60 mb DC600A tapes, and my drive eats them now (haven't used it in 10 or 15 years, have recently had a re-awakening of interest in playing with my Series III which I bought new for around $75,000 back in '86 or '87, I guess it was - yikes ;) Well, at least I hung on to it and it still seems to work fine, except for the tape streamer.

I started checking into it last year and it seems you can still buy new versions of alternate tape drives that read those tapes - so an external tape streamer is perhaps an option. But I sort of got too busy and lost interest in the project. Then when I saw this drive up on ebay, I thought - why not grab it and see if it works?

Thanks for the tip about the rubber wheel, I'll be sure to check it out. I did end up winning the tape-streamer on ebay, so now I have two of them to play with. Hopefully I can get one of them to work.

- Stephen