CDC 603 tape drives an dtCyber

[aswood at t-online.de]

The tape drives are from a 3000 system.

I do have an original cdc 170 series console and it would be a big deal and a nice project to get the console and the tape drives connected to dtcyber, since I lost almost any hope to get a real cy17x or 18x.

I'll be back home tomorrow and have a detailed look at the peripheral controller.

Fortunately I do have a lot of spares.

-- Andreas



> Am 12.08.2016 um 15:59 schrieb Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net>:
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>> On Aug 11, 2016, at 10:27 PM, aswood at t-online.de wrote:
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>> I do have two original CDC 603 tape drives with controller, but to be honest it would be quite a challenge to hook them to a modern system.
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> 603?  My manuals don't go back that far.  What kind of drive is that, and what does the controller connect to?
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> If it's a 6000 series channel interface, then that's very easy to deal with.  Channel to PCI-e interfaces have been built (out of FPGAs) and hooked up to DtCyber.  If it's some other type of channel, the same sort of answer would apply; none of those old channels are all that complex.
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>    paul
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