Searching one TK50

From: Eric Dittman <dittman_at_dittman.net>
Date: Sat Oct 20 13:09:22 2001

> Hello. I have a lot of TK50 tapes just received. They appear to contain VMS
> 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4
> basic distribution, plus the mandatory updates. There is some copies of VMS
> Fortran, VMS C 3.0,
> and Oracle for VMS. And the backups contains references to Word Perfect
> documents, then I suppose
> the Disk Backup Images (there is some of them) could contains a complete
> system installed.
>
> The question is that I don't have actually one TK5o to read them. I have one
> Microvax 3100 and one
> MIcrovax 2000, and I'd like to purchase or obtain one tape unit for every of
> this machines. If I understand
> it ok, the VS2000 needs one model, and the other DEC (or Scsi) machines the
> other TK50 model.
>
> Well.... What's about this ? There is somebody that knows about some tape
> device (or both) for trade ?

I have a TZ30 drive (internal). The TZ30 is a 5.25" half-height drive and
can read TK50 tapes.
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Eric Dittman
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