5 Sep
2015
5 Sep
'15
9:21 a.m.
On 2015-09-05 18:00, william degnan wrote:
Were common, but are there a lot in use today? I am
going to take some
photos, share with whomever is interested. The plan is to clean
thoroughly, move into the basement and work to restore.
I would say they are rather uncommon today. We're basically talking
about a 40 year old tape drive with vacuum colons. Many things that age
badly, not to mention lots were tossed when they became unfashionable.
And vacuum colon drives do require a bit more time and understanding to
work on in the first place.
I have a TU10 at home, connected to my PDP8, but I doubt the drive is
working anymore. I haven't powered it on in over 10 years...
Johnny
On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
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|| on a psychedelic trip
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On 9/5/15 8:46 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
On 9/5/15 8:40 AM, william degnan wrote:
And the basic tape transport was reused in the TE-16
I surprisingly found little
commentary or threads about the TU10 / TM11, other than DEC docs. I
guess
these are not super common
They were common. I worked on a bunch of them. Expect the vacuum sensors
to be bad
in the columns. I think Guy still has a couple of them.
Honk!!
If you've ever loaded a tape on one, you know what that means!