Gary Lee Phillips schreef op 17-3-2017 om 16:54:
Ethan Dicks <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>That's earlier than is possible... the model was introduced in Jan,
>1986. Don't know date of first ship.
Well I did say "around 1985 or so." After 30+ years, I'd say that was
a pretty close guess.
The tape drive was not TK50. It was standard reel to reel media,
horizontal like an studio audio tape deck, with a cover that had to be
lifted in order to use it. The disk drive was housed in the same
cabinet in a drawer below the tape unit. The tape drive was "finicky"
and seemed to work only with tapes ordered through DEC. The standard
tapes our much larger IBM shop used never read back correctly when
written on it.
Could it have been a TS11, nicknamed "Tape Stretcher-11" by those (me
included) who tried to use it with ever longer, reels of tape and thus
ever thinner tape?
/*Wilm*
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