19 Oct
2016
19 Oct
'16
5:04 p.m.
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Antonio Carlini <a.carlini at ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 19/10/16 01:18, Mark J. Blair wrote:
TUK50 - M7547. Very rare (not many people really wanted to read or
write TK50 tapes when they could so easily use 9-track from a Unibus
machine).
If any of those tapes are relevant to my
VAX-11/730, then they might
interest me.
I know that there was a Unibus TK50 interface ... but I would have thought
either TU58 or 9-track would have been a more likely software delivery
mechanism for a VAX-11/730 back in the day.
Indeed (or RL02... that was a valid distribution medium choice,
especially since most of the 11/730s had an RL02 on top not a magtape
drive.
-ethan