DEC TU-58 Drives

From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter_at_shell.monmouth.com>
Date: Mon Aug 3 10:50:52 1998

>
> > Define 'signs of life' :-). They don't spin the motors or light the LEDs
> > on the front panel at switch-on, but there's an LED inside, on the
> > controller board, that should flash once (I can't remember if it's
> > on-off-on or off-on-off) at switch on. Remove the front part of the
> > baseplate to see it. It's the only LED on the controller board.
>
> It's on for about 100ms, off for about 300ms, then back on.
>
> Incidentally, I just ordered a half dozen TU58-K cartridges for a
> customer who is (eventually) going to get upgraded from a VT103 with
> dual TU58's to an Andromeda desktop Q-bus box with a Mentec M100 PDP-11
> compatible CPU. US$33 each from DECDirect (1-800-Digital) - the
> most I've ever paid for 256 kbytes of storage! A couple of years
> ago the price was closer to US$24 each.
>
> Their prices on RX50-K's were the cheapest I've ever seen, though:
> US$9 for a box of ten.
>
> Tim.
>

What's going to happen with the VT103's... 8-)

Bill


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