On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 09:46:08PM +1000, Huw Davies wrote:
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> On 12 Jun 2004, at 09:58, Jay West wrote:
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> >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.
Those buttons are because the tape drive shares the SDI bus with RA-series
drives.
> ISTR that the TA90 was a re-badged IBM manufactured tape drive.
3480, perhaps?
-ethan
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