DEC & HP available - a trip to an infrequented collecting spot in stlouis

From: Huw Davies <huw.davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Sat Jun 12 06:46:08 2004

On 12 Jun 2004, at 09:58, Jay West wrote:

> An odd dec item I've never seen... it was something like TA90Z... I
> figure
> it was a tape drive. Pretty huge. But on the front through the cabinet
> cutout were the buttons I'm familiar with on 14" drives - run, stop,
> fault,
> drive ID plug, etc. And in the front was a recess where a removable
> hand-held keypad unit sat. This hand held unit had like 40 or so
> buttons on
> it, almost looked like a diagnostic keypad or something. Odd.

ISTR that the TA90 was a re-badged IBM manufactured tape drive. The
tapes were relatively low capacity, but high speed and had a built in
tape changer. I recall visiting a large VAX site in Sydney that had two
or three of them.

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