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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