6 Apr
2001
6 Apr
'01
1:05 p.m.
On Apr 6, 18:12, John Honniball wrote:
Are you thinking of the Pertec magnetic tape
interface? I
have a Cifer front-loading half-inch magtape drive that
(I'm told) has the Pertec interface. It has two large
50-way ribbon cables coming out of the back.
So, much as I hate to say "Me Too", I'd also like to find
out more about the Pertec interface. Was there ever a PC
ISA-bus card for this? Or a VME (Sun-3) card?
I'm sure there are VME cards. Dunno about ISA.
I've posted the pinout for the 2 x 50-way interface on my website at
http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/pertec.ps. It's a PostScript file.
I can't remember where the information originally came from, it was either
an Emulex TC02 manual or the manual for my tape deck.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York