On 17-Mar-17 13:23, Paul Koning wrote: >> On Mar 17, 2017, at 1:17 PM, Wilm Boerhout <wboerh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Gary Lee Phillips schreef op 17-3-2017 om 16:54: >>> Ethan Dicks <ethan.di...@gmail.com <mailto:ethan.di...@gmail.com>> 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? > Probably not, because the TS11 was a vertical unit. The top mounted > horizontal one is the TU80 and friends. There was also a drive that had the > tape loaded from the front, horizontally (RK05 fashion), I forgot what that > was called. It wasn't all that reliable since it had to do autoload, no > manual threading possible. TS[Z]05 > paul > > >
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