28 Jan
2007
28 Jan
'07
3:21 a.m.
Hello all,
two daysw ago, I aquired a microVAX II with a RA81 and a tape drive.
At the beginning, I thought that it was a half inch tape drive (toploader stype), but it
turned out to be a special thing.
Model type is : MT500C, the "C" standing for a cache option (128KB). The drive
dates back from 1986,
uses 24 tracks and can save 500 MB, which is way more than the 9-track reel tapes can
store.
It can be connected to a pertec controller.
It seems to special because I couldn't find any information for it except for a german
site from which obtained
the information I provided earlier.
Does anybody on the list knows anything about it ? Any experiences ? Documentation would
certainly help.
I don't even know where to get media for this thing. I got it whitout any media.
Regards,
Pierre
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28 Jan
28 Jan
4:58 a.m.
Pierre Gebhardt wrote:
Hello all,
Does anybody on the list knows anything about it ? Any experiences ? Documentation would
certainly help.
I don't even know where to get media for this thing. I got it whitout any media.
Regards,
Pierre
I have a drive, and maybe 1 or 2 bits of media for megatape. They were
reliable
as far as working, but the media was very expensive.
At the time they were built in a form factor to fit into a farm of EMD
or CSD (I think)
1/2 19" rack x about 8 1/2" high winchester disk farms. The winchesters
were from 300
to 1.2gb in capacity (Hitachi made an SMD of that capacity) and were
quite fast
for the time, and were 7" platter seald packs or so. YOu could put in
one of
these drives so the thought went, and have a back up on a megatape cartridge
for one of the drives. 1/2" tape high end capacity was around that at
the time, but
took up more rack space.
I think they were around here in LA somewhere, and I acquired my drives from
the company estate on the scrap market.
They worked well on our pertec formatted controller, and on an overland
I had
at the time.
Since I got them after market, I don't think I have any manuals, but
I'll look in
my files.
Jim
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