TZ85/TK85

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Tue Jul 10 13:09:47 2001

At 12:26 PM 7/10/01 -0500, you wrote:
>I have a drive that is identified on the front as a TZ85
>and on the top as a TK85-AX. The drive has a non-standard
>interface one the back. The interface is a high-density
>40-pin connector in two rows of 10.
>
>Does anyone know what kind of connector is on this
>drive?

This is an example of an early DLT drive (its the one that came after the
TK70) it takes CompacTape III carts and does 1.2GB/tape IIRC.

The connector goes to a "bridge board", one does SCSI and one of them does
DSSI. Yours apparently was hooked up to a SCSI board when installed in a
chassis because it calls itself the TZ85, if it had been hooked to a DSSI
board it would be called a TF85. They were fairly common in the 4000/xxx
series. I think I have a DSSI bridge board somewhere from a drive that had
been in one of those.

--Chuck
Received on Tue Jul 10 2001 - 13:09:47 BST