13 Mar
2015
13 Mar
'15
8:36 a.m.
On 03/12/2015 10:24 PM, Sean Caron wrote:
There's nothing particularly special about it...
just a (relatively
stripped, at that) BA23 and a CDC 9-track drive in a rack. If the buyer
could actually sell the stuff by breaking it into shippable parts it might
contribute to a good home for the gear in the long run I don't see any harm
in that... Many systems are designed to be whole-rack units and I agree
it's wrong to split those up... but IMO this is not really an example of
that...
Hmmm, CDC 9-track tape drive? How is that interfaced? SCSI?
Ah, I see some mention of Emulex boards, so probably one of
those is the Pertec formatted interface. The tape drive is a
Magnetic Peripherals Inc., either 92181 (800/1600) or a
92185 (1600/6250).
There was a SCSI interface board for these drives, which I'd
like to find. I have a 92185 with the Pertec interface, and
made
a hideous little interface board for it, but it is somewhat of
a nightmare.
Jon