27 Jan
1999
27 Jan
'99
8:45 a.m.
Upon the date 05:16 PM 1/27/99 -0500, Bill Pechter said something like:
Jim Strickland <jim(a)calico.litterbox.com> said:
Bill and others: I have a TS03 and its manual here. They indeed are 800
BPI NRZI. I can quote more info out of the manual if you need it to update
your file of info you had for the above list.
I have no other info on the other tape systems in my library at this time.
This tape wasn't new when I used it - it was
a leftover vms patch tape from
the 4.whatever world. Now it was recorded at pretty low density - 1200bpi,
if memory serves) but I would have expected it to have many more problems.
1200bpi would be a bit wierd.
Actually, the standard 7 and 9 track tape densities were something like:
Tape Density Encoding method DEC Tape Drive
200BPI (NRZ?)
556BPI (NRZI?) TU10?
800BPI NRZI (Non-Return to Zero Indescrete) TU10/16/TE10/16
TU45/77/TS03?
TS04?
1600BPI PE (Phase Encoded) TE16/TU45/TU77/TU78
TA78 TS11
3200BPI
6250BPI GCR (Group Coded Recording) TU78/TA78
I'm not sure if the TU10 went to 200BPI or 556BPI... Those were old old
densities from early IBM stuff. I am also unsure of the TS03/04's.
There were other machines like the Cipher 880's that did 3200BPI
and 1600. DEC used one as the TSV05.
Bill
Regards, Chris
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