Re: Fujitsi 2444AC 9-track tape drive/PDP-11

[Jon Elson via cctalk]

On 03/18/2019 10:35 PM, W2HX via cctalk wrote:
4.      Anyone ever make a pertec to USB project? Might be interesting to get 
access to old tapes on more modern computers?

I have some CDC (Laser Magnetic Storage) 92185 drives (known 
as Keystone, this is the 1600/6250 version, buffered Pertec 
Interface).  I made a horrible hack of an FPGA board I make 
to read tapes through a PC's parallel port.  it works, but 
is real slow.

Jon