27 Jul
2022
27 Jul
'22
7:08 p.m.
Finally, one piece of DEC kit I didn't mention
last time is the Magtape
drive. This is the sort that takes up the top 18U or thereabouts of a
rack, but doesn't go very deep. I've been sorting through my Unibus
cards (some of which are taken, but others may appear here), but I have
no idea what cards would drive this tape machine. Can anyone help?
Well, thanks to Tony, I now know that it should have a whole card cage
full of cards. It doesn't!
The TU16 is therefore mechanism only, for spares.
Another monster (which I'm amazed I even kept through the house move!).
It calls itself a "D-Scan Colour Hardcopy". It is an enormously heavy
box that takes in video on six coaxes, I think at CGA resolution, and
uses special rolls of thermal transfer paper. One of the layers
actually has magenta, cyan and yellow pages in rotation, for
transferring to the paper at the appropriate point.
Anyway, if anyone is interested, free as before. If not, in the skip...
I have some photos which can upload if people want.
Philip.