DEC UNIBUS and use of cassette

[Noel Chiappa]

    > From: Bill Degnan

    > Was there a UNIBUS storage system that used a cassette player as the
    > storage device .., rigged to send receive signals via a serial card
    > connection. 

Yes and no. There is the TA11 Magnetic Tape Cassette System, which used the
TU60 Dual DECasette Transport (I need to create a page for that in the
CHWiki), but it uses a special controller card, the TA11 Magnetic Tape
Cassette controller:

  https://gunkies.org/wiki/TA11_Magnetic_Tape_Cassette_controller  

There is a small cheap tape system which used a stock serial interface to talk
to the computer, the TU58, but those used DECtpe-II cartridges, not standard
casettes.

	Noel