VINTAGE HP Certified Data Cartridges 9162-0061 LOT of 19 Data Cartridges B-51 For Sale
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VINTAGE HP Certified Data Cartridges 9162-0061 LOT of 19 Data Cartridges B-51
Price: US $80.00
The product is a lot of 19 vintage HP Certified Data Cartridges 9162-0061 with a capacity of 8GB each. These data cartridges are DDS-2 type and manufactured in Singapore. Mini data tape cartridges for use in 98X5 computers, 987X tape units, 264X terminals, and 80 Series computers. 98200A was the part number for a 5-pack of 9162-0061 individual cartridges. According to the HP Computer Museum, "For years now, reading data from these old tapes has been almost a lost cause. The last mainstream computer that HP made which used these tapes was obsoleted in 1987 (the 85B). It is extremely rare to find a drive that will read one of these tapes unless that drive has been refurbished. Fortunately, refurbishing the old drives is relatively straightforward (see the hp9845.net link above). Unfortunately, even a pristine drive will not read a bad tape. One of the big problems with these tapes is that the metal oxide (that holds the data) has a tendency to flake off from the tape substrate. Other age-related and use problems (eg tape not being rewound) make these tapes very unreliable now. Even tapes which have never been used and come straight out of a wrapped package can have the oxide flaking problem. In our experience, fewer than 15 percent of these old tapes are readable."