Tektrionix VAXBI board and DC100 training tapes?
Paul Koning
paulkoning at comcast.net
Thu Sep 19 16:06:34 CDT 2019
> On Sep 19, 2019, at 3:45 PM, Mattis Lind via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> An ex DEC engineer offloaded some stuff that he had found in his attic.
> ...
> Then there were some DC100 tapes in a huge heap of TU58 diagnostic tapes
> for VAX-11/730 and VAX-11/750 that looked different.
>
> https://i.imgur.com/6n8yCxd.jpg?1
>
> They were marked "BI-SYNC TRAINING TAPE" and "ASYNC TRAINING TAPE
> TAP-895-103-1.0 3.04"
BI-SYNC is an odd spelling, but I would guess it means "BISYNC", the ancient communication protocol mostly used by IBM. With the hyphen it sounds like it's related to BI, but I suspect that's a red herring.
paul
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