Pertec cabling

From: Daniel A. Seagraves <dseagrav_at_bsdserver.tek-star.net>
Date: Thu Aug 21 14:33:31 1997

On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Bruce Lane wrote:

> I can't speak for the 7970, but I can tell you that Pertec formatted
> connections are usually a pair of 50-pin (25 to each side) PC edge paddles.
> I've seen a few (very few!) devices, specifically an old Unibus tape
> controller, where one connection was a Berg 50-pin header and the other was
> an edge paddle.
>
> From your description, it sounds as though the drive may not have its
> own formatter built in, outside of the HPIB interface section. I could,
> however, be mistaken (read: I'd need to see the drive).
>

I wanted to avoid this, but it looks like I get to remove the GPIB boards
to look!

Lemme go pull the drive apart...

The GPIB interface boards look easy to remove.

They were...
Coming from the cards are 3 50-pin ribbon cables. One to motor control,
one to the write electronics, and one to the read electronics.
Pertec Unformatted.

This means I need a TM02 to Pertec board in the 11, and a Pertec formatter
in the drive.
Is that correct?

Which boards do Pertec to TM02 in the 11?
Received on Thu Aug 21 1997 - 14:33:31 BST