9 Jan
2006
9 Jan
'06
6:13 p.m.
On Jan 9, 2006, at 4:05 PM, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Well, if you'd like to... there's enough information. It's just a
bunch of parallel lines with control and status, then a dual-flag
ssytem, to transfer data (eg. DMA handshake) that will go slow, but I
imagine too slow you'd underrun the drive.
I did an interface to a 1/2" 7-track tape drive aeons ago on a SWTP
6800 (833KHz CPU!) using two parallel ports. Slow, non-standard, but
it was my main data storage device for a few years.
* I'm reducing my Data General Nova/4 to one rack. 'Must go' are a
D.G. 6xxx vacuum column tape drive (or two) in good working order;
Wow, those'd be nifty. I wonder how hard they'd be to interface
to something
else?
What bpi will the ones mentioned do?
800 only
If you actually want them you'll have to drive to Los Angeles --
large, delicate, heavy. http://wps.com/NOVA4, 24" deep each. Racks
are free. Two in one rack would weigh 300+ lbs including rack, but it
would have wheels.
Too bad I don't do ebay.
freedom of religion in this country for now at least