DEC Design - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

3 Sep 2001

...
   Actually,
DEC's tape drives were abysmal in design (not counting the
 DECtapes which were really reel-to-reel disk drives.  
   Yes, DECtapes are very cool.  DLTs are pretty nice too; they FINALLY
 fixed the TK50 after a few iterations! ;) 
The TK50 was not so great; the TK70 was much more reliable.  I don't have
any experience with the TZ30 (although I do have one somewhere).  The Tx85,
Tx86, Tx87, Tx88, and Tx89 all seem to be exceptionally reliable (along with
the equivalent DLTx000 drives).  I used to use DAT at home.  Now I use a
DLT4700 system.
-- 
Eric Dittman
dittman(a)dittman.net