3 Oct
2004
3 Oct
'04
8:26 p.m.
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Nico de Jong wrote:
DECtape has nothing to do with DEC's "TK" technology, and, therefore,
nothing with DLT. Chances of you reading a DECtape with any DLT or
TK drive are exactly 0.00%.
You'd need a DECtape TU55/56 to read those (assuming they're DECtape II
tapes), or a TU58 if they are of that kind. Usually, when people are
referring to DECtape, they meen the small 256KB block-addresseable
reel tapes "as seen on TV" and in the pictures, and those are TU55/56.
I have a working TU56, but not a working machine to connect it to
at the moment.
--f
> I was
contacted recently someone at WPI who had been approached
> about reading an old DECtape. They no longer have the DEC-10
> at WPI, so need to find someone with working DECtapes who might
> be able to read the tape...
I'm not a DEC specialist (far from it), but if the tape is compatible with
DLT2000, I would have a fair chance of being able to read it.