19 Sep
2019
19 Sep
'19
2:06 p.m.
On Sep 19, 2019, at 3:45 PM, Mattis Lind via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
An ex DEC engineer offloaded some stuff that he had found in his attic.
...
Then there were some DC100 tapes in a huge heap of TU58 diagnostic tapes
for VAX-11/730 and VAX-11/750 that looked different.
https://i.imgur.com/6n8yCxd.jpg?1
They were marked "BI-SYNC TRAINING TAPE" and "ASYNC TRAINING TAPE
TAP-895-103-1.0 3.04"
BI-SYNC is an odd spelling, but I would guess it means "BISYNC", the ancient
communication protocol mostly used by IBM. With the hyphen it sounds like it's
related to BI, but I suspect that's a red herring.
paul
