yippee, 24 TK52-K carts

From: Jacob Ritorto <jritorto_at_nut.net>
Date: Fri May 28 11:08:36 1999

Yes, you can use those newer carts on a tk50, but once you write a header
on one, it's formatted tk50 for good. Unless you manually degauss it or
something. The tk70 can read both formats though. I guess that was DEC's
way of keeping compatibility between the two drives. (lame)

On Fri, 28 May 1999, Chuck McManis wrote:

> 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?
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> --Chuck
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Received on Fri May 28 1999 - 11:08:36 BST