11 Mar
2019
11 Mar
'19
10:32 a.m.
If you open it up, it should have a DEI tape drive in it, which predates QIC
The data coming off the tape is NRZ instead of GCR
I just double-checked and the drive pinouts match the DEI CMTD-3400 manual
I know, it isn't obvious at all from the maint manual..
This is a problem for a bunch of systems built in the early 80's (Zilog, Onyx, etc)
I have a stack of tapes in the queue (incl an 816 tubodos tape) for me to get fixed-head 4
track reading working
On 3/11/19 10:19 AM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
Really? They're DC300 cartridges.
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 1:16 PM Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org
<mailto:cctalk at classiccmp.org>> wrote:
On 3/10/19 7:48 PM, Patrick Finnegan via cctalk wrote:
One has the TurboDOS backup/install media for a
Televideo TS-816 that I got
from Don Maslin back in the day. I think the other one is related too, but
it was unmarked.
TS-816 tapes aren't QIC