17 Apr
2012
17 Apr
'12
12:48 p.m.
Hi Pierre,
ok... I'll stay tuned ;)
P Gebhardt <p.gebhardt at ymail.com> wrote:
Oliver,
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don't dump the parts, yet !
I have a Zilog System 8000 in my collection as well, but didn't find
time to resurrect it. It's even accessible again since a couple of
weeks.
Let me check in the upcoming weeks, if a tape-drive is installed in
there, and, if so, if it's a DEI, too.
Maybe I can be of any help here for you.
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By the way, the Onyx C8000-Series also used very early
DEI-tape-drives, but I don't know, if these are of same type as
those you have in your System 8000.
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Kind regards,
Pierre
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Von: Oliver Lehmann <lehmann at ans-netz.de>
An: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Gesendet: 22:39 Montag, 16.April 2012
Betreff: Re: Quantex 650 / 2200 QIC tapedrive
Hi Nico,
Nico de Jong <nico at farumdata.dk> wrote:
Even QIC drives are not all SCSI compliant. I
remember an Archive
drive (5956?, 36 MB?) which had its own controller, and could not
be spoken to with e.g. an Adaptec 1510. I think your only chance is
to find an identical/compatible working system in a museum.
Yeah I had a LR56637 once which came with an 8Bit-ISA card working in
a Xenix System from Acer....
Problem is that the 2 or 3 guys I know who posess such a system did
not provided copies since years for different reasons (no time, no
equipment, no idea where the tape actually is).
So as the time goes, the tapes will be less and less readable - if
the drives are still working at all (probably not because of the gum
wheel....).
Looks like I should just dump the parts I have from the S8000 - sad
as it was long time my dream to get a working System 8000 :(
? Greetings