22 Jul
2011
22 Jul
'11
2:22 p.m.
On 07/22/2011 01:54 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
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.
PS - This random semi-contribution was brought to you by Comp-- /Look, a
squirrel!/
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. ;-)
Or find someone that wants it with the cables.
Unibus formatted tape controllers aren't that hard to find.