1 Nov
1998
1 Nov
'98
10:58 a.m.
Jerome Fine <jhfine(a)idirect.com> wrote:
If anyone has not been able to figure out the answer
to that question,
or with any of the other PDP-11/44 systems, I am looking for a TU-58
tape drive which I understand came as an external unit with this system.
No, they are normally an internal unit in the CPU rack.
IMAO, the only thing they are useful for it reading TU58 media and
transferring it to some more reasonable disk or tape.
The TU58 actually is a serial peripheral; the 11/44 has a dedicated serial
line to it. There is published C source code that can be run on another
computer to emulate a TU58 drive.