9-track tape interfaces

[Greg Lehey]

On Tuesday,  8 December 1998 at 19:49:40 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On 8 Dec 1998, Michael Sokolov wrote:
>>> (I'm sure someone will now chime in about the days when Univac
>>> UniServo drives ruled the earth...)
>>
>>    Just out of curiosity, what are they?
>
> Big BIG tape drives - real Sci-Fi material :-)

UniServo was UNIVAC's name for all its tape drives, at least as long
as I was involved with them.  They were all vacuum column jobs, but
some were definitely ``cheap'' ones, such as the UniServo 6 and 12,
which were intended for smaller machines.  IIRC the latest ``big''
ones were the UniServo 16 and 20, at least when I was still involved
with UNIVAC.

Greg
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