22 Jul
2011
22 Jul
'11
2:35 p.m.
From: "Steven M Jones" <classiccmp at crash.com>
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 11:22 PM
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: 9 Track Tape Drive Interface Variants
Ahhh, now I remember ... I am pretty sure that I have a TC13 (need to search
it).
Trade for the TC-130?
- Henk.
On 7/22/11
1:44 PM, Jochen Kunz wrote:
I keep having small moments of dissonance every time I see TC-130 - the
formatted Pertec tape controller that connects my VAX-11/730 to a Cipher
F880 is an Emulex TC13... The TC13 should be able to emulate both a TS11
and a TU81, which might be handy.
Anyway there appear to be TC12, 13, and 14's available on ePay and so
probably through other channels. And plenty of other makes/models, I'm
sure.
Anybody want to recommend their favorites? In addition to Jochen, I'll
probably want to add one to a PDP-11/44 at some point.
/--/S. And there is still an other option: Slaughter the
TC-130 for the UniBus
interface chips. Interface some modernish microcontroler to the UniBus
and build my own tape (or whatever) controller. ;-)