Tektronix photos updated - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

29 Apr 2011

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  Yeah, I've got one. Mine has no stand - unlike the
4010, the electronics
 for the 4051 are in the unit itself, not in the stand. It's really not a
 big device at all - very deep, but not so big that it won't fit on a
 desk. Of course, the 4051 I have (as with most, I would assume), has a
 faulty tape drive because the rubber driver wheel is shot. The built in
 BASIC is pretty cool, and the graphic routines are fun to play with, but
 without the ability to save programs, it's kind of annoying. 
That's interesting. It's been about 30 years but I distinctly remember the
4051s I used sitting on really heavy duty stands, either bolted together or
I thought, made that way. I remember moving one across the room (with help),
it weighed a ton. Must have been the steel stand.

I hope you can sort the tape drive issues and get tapes as I remember the
units were very reliable and quite fast. I believe it had a feature to find
the file you wanted quickly and index the tape. Do you have the old golf
game? It was always a favorite.

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Yes, I was there, if a little late...
The good old days really were!