Re: HP 9865a cassette tape drive Message #2 Posted by Tony Duell on 31 Oct 2010, 5:28 a.m., in response to message #1 by Keith Lueck
Yes, unfortunately I only have the interface, not the complete drive. And I suspect shipping a drive, even if one was for sale, would be out of the question for me.
I suspect (based on the part numbers) that the HP9830 internal tape drive uses some of the same PCBs as the 9865. Now the tape drive is one of the few bits of the 9830 that is field-repaired to component level. You can get full schematics of the 9830, and the 9830 service manual from the same place that you got the 9865 interface diagram.
I suspect that with that information it won't be hard to figure out the rest of the drive unit.
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