Obsolete media (was: Whats the screwiest thing you collect?) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

28 Nov 1999

--- Dave McGuire &lt;mcguire(a)neurotica.com&gt; wrote:
...
  On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Richard Erlacher wrote:
 Since the GOV also loved DEC, I'd be very
surprised to learn that there's no
practical implementation available of the EXB8200 on a DEC machine...  
   They do exist...I have a couple of subsystems here which have Exabyte
 drives in them (unmodified, regular SCSI drives) with bridge boards which
 go to SDI connectors on the other side. 
We had a few of them on the VAXcluster at Lucent.  Screwy damn things...
you had to double-tap one of the bridge-card buttons to unload the tapes;
they wouldn't unload with the internal eject button nor under VMS control.

I myself have more than one 8200.  If anyone is looking, let me know.

-ethan

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