21 Aug
2021
21 Aug
'21
10:49 a.m.
From: Bill Degnan
Was there a UNIBUS storage system that used a cassette
player as the
storage device .., rigged to send receive signals via a serial card
connection.
Yes and no. There is the TA11 Magnetic Tape Cassette System, which used the
TU60 Dual DECasette Transport (I need to create a page for that in the
CHWiki), but it uses a special controller card, the TA11 Magnetic Tape
Cassette controller:
https://gunkies.org/wiki/TA11_Magnetic_Tape_Cassette_controller
There is a small cheap tape system which used a stock serial interface to talk
to the computer, the TU58, but those used DECtpe-II cartridges, not standard
casettes.
Noel