27 Jun
2005
27 Jun
'05
8:02 a.m.
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 10:00 -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
Jules> Out of interest, what drives are those? Our
8 has a pair of
Jules> Dectape 55's, which have bronze-coloured faceplates rather
Jules> than the black of the Ebay system. Is Dectape 55 a different
Jules> animal to TU55?
Curious. The black ones are the ones I know, with black "spider"
hubs. Then again, the PDP-6 photo on
http://simh.trailing-edge.com/photos/pdp6.jpg shows shiny metal hubs
and a faceplate that doesn't seem to be black. So yours may be an
older version.
Hmm, I've only got one photo of our 8 here on this machine, however...
Machine (panels are currently laying behind it, they're not missing!):
http://www.patooie.com/temp/pdp8small.jpg
Closer view of the drives:
http://www.patooie.com/temp/dectapes.jpg
I don't know this machine's history, although I can ask. I did wonder if
the bronze panels were just the same as this EBay 8 and had been
stripped back to metal for some reason (i.e. they were once painted
black), but (without the machine in front of me to check) it looks like
the lettering's added direct to the panel - plus of course it carries
the DECtape55 nameplate which the TU55s of the EBay machine don't have.
I thought it was going to be a stupid question with a really easy answer
(I'm a DEC novice!) but maybe not! :-)
cheers
Jules
