9-track drive: What is it?

From: Daniel A. Seagraves <dseagrav_at_bsdserver.tek-star.net>
Date: Wed Aug 20 09:29:22 1997

On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Tim Shoppa wrote:

> If it's two 50-pin connectors, it's a Pertec Formatted interface.
> Lots of older drives have within their bowels yet another set
> of cables: the Pertec Unformatted interface. This is three cables,
> one carrying control signals, another carrying read data, another
> carrying write data.
>

Which DOES interface to the 11! I'll go look.
The front of the drive does open, it did that and knocked me in the
shins...
Received on Wed Aug 20 1997 - 09:29:22 BST