WTB: 5 1/4" Magneto Optical Cartridges

From: John Wilson <wilson_at_dbit.dbit.com>
Date: Fri Feb 18 12:01:31 2000

On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 10:56:44AM -0500, John B wrote:
> If you had said DECTape drives then I probably would have taken you up on
> it. I can *now* truly appreciate why many dec engineers, field service, and
> prior dec employees all call them junk. Many have been guilty of using
> Luttig's name in vane... now, me too!
>
> I wonder if TU56s float?

What do you mean? Just because they break down a lot and have an ECO list a
mile long? Doesn't matter! They're one of the coolest peripherals around
anyway! It's amazing the lengths DEC went to, to have a cheap removable
medium that only *slightly* pre-dated floppy disks. But then again they had
no choice... My only complaint is that the TC11 backplane has a full-height
bracket on only one side, if you take it out of the rack then the two halves
of the other side of the backplane is being held together by the wire wrap
wire alone. Solution -- don't ever take it out of the rack! And only DEC
would make a pretty lights 'n switches control panel and then hide it behind
a black block-out panel.

Anyway I promise you TU56s don't float, not by a long shot!

John Wilson
D Bit
Received on Fri Feb 18 2000 - 12:01:31 GMT