DEC TU80 tape drive

From: Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Wed Mar 4 20:16:39 1998

At 01:56 PM 04-03-98 -0800, Jack Peacock wrote:
>I just acquired (5 minutes ago) a DEC TU80 open reel tape drive, but no
>docs. There is a 3rd party Q-bus card (Distributed Logic Corp) that came
>with it, cables seem to line up. Does anyone know anything about this tape
>drive, is it a 6250 bpi drive, can it work in a MicroVAX II or VAX 3600
>Q-Bus, and is it supported under VMS 5,6, or 7? Is there some kind of SCSI
>adapter so I could connect it to an NT machine or an Alpha?

A TU80 is 1600bpi only and is (from a rusty memory) 25/75ips (25ips in
normal mode and 75ips in streaming mode). Should work fine in a uVAX-II or
-III and will be supported under VMS 5,6,7,...


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