If you open it up, it should have a DEI tape drive in it, which predates QIC The data coming off the tape is NRZ instead of GCR
I just double-checked and the drive pinouts match the DEI CMTD-3400 manual I know, it isn't obvious at all from the maint manual.. This is a problem for a bunch of systems built in the early 80's (Zilog, Onyx, etc) I have a stack of tapes in the queue (incl an 816 tubodos tape) for me to get fixed-head 4 track reading working On 3/11/19 10:19 AM, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > Really? They're DC300 cartridges. > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 1:16 PM Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org > <mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote: > > > > On 3/10/19 7:48 PM, Patrick Finnegan via cctalk wrote: > > > One has the TurboDOS backup/install media for a Televideo TS-816 that I > got > > from Don Maslin back in the day. I think the other one is related too, > but > > it was unmarked. > > > > TS-816 tapes aren't QIC >
