a few vax 11/730 tu58 tape images

From: Brad Parker <brad_at_heeltoe.com>
Date: Fri Apr 9 18:29:02 2004

Michael Sokolov wrote:
>Forgot to ask one more thing...
>
>Brad Parker <brad_at_heeltoe.com> wrote:
>
>> "BE-T173I-ME","TU58#34 11725/730 CONSOLE","1982,1984"
>> "BE-T175I-DE","TU58#35 11725/730 DIAG SUPER","PROPERTY OF DEC","1982,1984"
>> "BE-T176I-DE","TU58#36 11725/730 MICRODIAG","PROPERTY OF DEC","1982,1983"
>
>Any idea on where do the "TU58#34" and 35 and 36 numbers came from? Are they
>on the tape label? Does the label look original DEC or secondary? Do those
>numbers (34/35/36) appear printed by DEC or by someone else? These numbers ar
>e
>also written on the tapes themselves as each tape contains a zero-length marke
>r
>file named TU58xx.VI0, with xx being 34, 35 or 36. But it would be strange fo
>r
>such numbers to come from DEC: I don't think DEC thought of their diags as bei
>ng
>"TU58 #suchandsuch", I think they thought of them as being 2-5-2 numbers (the
>ones starting with BE- in this case).

The #'s are straight from the label, which sure looks like proper DEC to
me. I can send you a jpg if you like :-)

The info above is basically the 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th line of text from
the label.

>> I think
>> I have some 750 console tapes also, which I'll put up as soon as I read
>> them.
>
>I have a seemingly-pristine 750 console tape image on my FTP site. It came fr
>om
>an Ultrix source tree IIRC. It would be nice to compare it with what you have
>.

will do!

-brad
Received on Fri Apr 09 2004 - 18:29:02 BST