9-track tape drive: What is this?

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_odin.phy.bris.ac.uk>
Date: Wed Aug 20 03:20:36 1997

> Oooh fun... so there's little chance of interfacing it to the 11/44?

Well, there are GPIB (same thing as HPIB as near as darn-it) cards for the
PDP11 Unibus (and Qbus for that matter) both from DEC (the IB-11 and
IBV-11) and 3rd parties. But AFAIK there is no support for HP tape drives
hung off such a card - certainly not for booting or installing an OS.

> As for the computer, it apparently uses the drive. I have no cord, and no
> idea where to plug it in. Where's the console terminal? Mine has no
> switches, darn.

Well, it probably connects via a custom HP cable (read: expensive) to one
of the cards in the cardcage. That's what happens on a friends HP9000/735.
Ditto for the console terminal.

What cards do you have in there, and what markings do they have? Anything
recognizable?

-tony
Received on Wed Aug 20 1997 - 03:20:36 BST

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