5 Feb
2006
5 Feb
'06
2:45 p.m.
On 2/5/2006 at 6:59 PM ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
If that's the tape I'm thinking of, it's
used in the 9830, and I think
also the 982. There was an external tape drive for these machines that I
forget the number of (HP9865???)
No--the DC-300 is a big tape, thinner, but almost the size of a VHS
cassette. DC-300, DC-600, DC-6150, DC-6250 and several other formats share
the same mechanical layout and size.
I've still got a bunch of the little DC-1000's squirreled away. The drive
(Iwin) has 3.5" FH form factor. Are there any other 3.5" DC-xxx drives?
Anyone remember a really silly format brought out about 1993? Used a 2.5mm
tape in a cart about the size of an audio microcassette. The mechanism was
a Sony helical-scan setup. It could run on 4 AA cells and interfaced
through the parallel port. I was sent one as an evaluation unit and never
could get it to work reliably. Tapes were expensive--about $15--and
available only via Fedex from the manufacturer.
I normally don't send many eval units back, but when I got wind that the
manufacturer was telling customers that that we "were working on a driver"
for it, I sent the unit back with an angry letter. One of my customers
bought 50 of the units anyway and, for all I know, they're still sitting in
a warehouse somewhere, unopened and unused.
Cheers,
Chuck