Tu10 pdp11

[Paul Anderson]

That is one of a handful of DEC items I'm still looking for, so if anyone
has an extra or running out of room, please contact me off list.

I would plan on the capstan being shot also. Anyone have any extras?

Paul



On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at update.uu.se> wrote:

> On 2015-09-05 18:00, william degnan wrote:
>
>> Were common, but are there a lot in use today?  I am going to take some
>> photos, share with whomever is interested.  The plan is to clean
>> thoroughly, move into the basement and work to restore.
>>
>
> I would say they are rather uncommon today. We're basically talking about
> a 40 year old tape drive with vacuum colons. Many things that age badly,
> not to mention lots were tossed when they became unfashionable.
> And vacuum colon drives do require a bit more time and understanding to
> work on in the first place.
>
> I have a TU10 at home, connected to my PDP8, but I doubt the drive is
> working anymore. I haven't powered it on in over 10 years...
>
>         Johnny
>
>
>
>> On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 9/5/15 8:46 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
>>>
>>> On 9/5/15 8:40 AM, william degnan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I surprisingly found little
>>>>> commentary or threads about the TU10 / TM11,  other than DEC docs.  I
>>>>> guess
>>>>> these are not super common
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> They were common. I worked on a bunch of them. Expect the vacuum sensors
>>>> to be bad
>>>> in the columns. I think Guy still has a couple of them.
>>>>
>>>> Honk!!
>>>>
>>>> If you've ever loaded a tape on one, you know what that means!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And the basic tape transport was reused in the TE-16
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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