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Mechanics and Construction => Mechanics and Construction => Topic started by: corrado33 on June 11, 2011, 07:27:38 AM

Title: I've had this thing for years, what is it and what can I use from it?
Post by: corrado33 on June 11, 2011, 07:27:38 AM
Years ago, my mom's work was throwing this thing away, and knowing that I love all things electronics, she asked me if I wanted it.  

I said HECK yeah.  So it's been sitting in my basement ever since.  From what I can gather, it's an old tape deck computer backup device.  There are two readers down the bottom and slots for the tapes above them, and a device to move tapes into the readers.  When I opened it up, I immediately thought, DIY CNC MILL!!  But I don't know if the motors are stepper motors.  I did see the nice plastic threaded rods though. Those are pretty cool.

So, before I tear into this thing, can anyone identify it and tell me if I should try to salvage stuff from it?  I'm assuming it's very outdated technology.  I think I had one of the tapes before.  I think they were 2 gigs a piece or something?  Not very much.  And I'm sure you could buy three or four redundant hard drives now-a-day that would replace this thing for cheaper.  

Here are the pics.  (Oh, it does still work too.)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-qPlVqeO8BMc/TfNsX3eIZ4I/AAAAAAAAAt4/o2GtDGTc4cs/s640/P79850505.jpg)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tbstt7NpxAw/TfNsT0P01oI/AAAAAAAAAt0/-MYqc43Dpu8/s640/P79850104.jpg)
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-RM4XK-5oD9I/TfNsLqrIJjI/AAAAAAAAAtk/5iC1sx1IZ-I/s640/P79849202.jpg)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-X0XpgOkGww8/TfNsHntphOI/AAAAAAAAAtg/LtcmwWxVbeQ/s640/P79848801.jpg)
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-vVQ1GKuxM9Y/TfNsEgL4THI/AAAAAAAAAtc/8_Ke4_Y1AiM/s640/P79848400.jpg)


Title: Re: I've had this thing for years, what is it and what can I use from it?
Post by: Soeren on June 12, 2011, 02:37:09 PM
Hi,

Google make and model number to see what exactly it is - looks like something that can store and access several medias.