Telling DECTape & LINCTape Drives Apart?

From: Bob Shannon <bshannon_at_tiac.net>
Date: Fri Nov 21 17:04:04 2003

Actually Tony, Computer Operations in Beltsville MD sold LINC tape drives
for unibus machines, DG Nova series, and HP 21xx processors.

Jay West has a working Computer Operations LINC tape transport and
controller (unibus) sitting in my garage!

Eric Smith wrote:

>Al wrote:
>
>>By the time PDP12's were built, DEC was using the same transport
>>(TU55's, later TU56's) for either format.
>>
>
>AFAIK, this was true even of DEC's early Microtape/DECtape/LINCtape
>drives, the Type 55 and Type 555, since the transport is completely
>format-agnostic.
>
>The only "LINCtape only" transport was the one built into
>the original LINC, and there probably wasn't anything inherent in
>that transport that would have prevented it from being used as a DECtape
>transport. (The LINCtape control, however, could not deal with DECtape.)
>
>
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