yippee, 24 TK52-K carts

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Fri May 28 13:50:32 1999

Well after crossing my fingers I got 24 TK-52-K 1/2" tape cartridges in the
mail today. I've now got a reasonable amount of media for my TK70 to chew
on. These were DEC labelled tapes interestingly enough. They come with a
check box to indicate "296 MB" or "95 MB" and it appears that one can use
them in a TK50 as well? That would be pretty cool (not that I have a TK50,
but if I did it would be cool :-) A couple of questions of course ...
        1) Can use in either drive? Restrictions?
        2) Is it possible to write a TK50 bootable tape on a
           TK70?
Also I signed up for DECUS so that I could get the OpenVMS media, but
haven't heard back from DECUS.org, (its been a week). Are these guys slow?

--Chuck
Received on Fri May 28 1999 - 13:50:32 BST