In response to overwhelming demand...

[Chuck Guzis]

On 2 Dec 2006 at 20:28, Tore Sinding Bekkedal wrote:

> HEY!!
> 
> The Tandberg is 100% NORWEGIAN!! :)

Sorry, I had Volvo on the brain.  I would have compared it to a 
Norwegian-made auto, but I don't know of any offhand. :)

> Yeah. To make matters worse, their main OEM dealer Norsk Data, when
> selling the terminals, marked them up at least 20 percent when selling
> them. As one customer remarked - it was a very expensive "Norsk Data"
> sticker...
> 
> > Anyone care to fill me in on what the thing was--and if anyone ever used
> > them.  Tandberg sticks in my mind because the same salesman dropped off a 9
> > track tape drive for evaluation that was definitely a Tandberg.
> 
> >From your description I'm going to guess that you're talking about a
> TDV-2200 series, most likely the TDV-2215.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TDV-2200 (Picture taken by me)

Looks very close, except I think the display on mine was on a 
moveable arm support.

We also received a tabletop 9-track tape drive at about the same 
time.  Not an autoloader per se, but reel-to-reel in a vertical 
plane.  The interface was very simple--I was able to use a single 
8255 to talk to the drive (i.e., it wasn't a Pertec interface).  But 
again, far, far too expensive.  :(

Cheers,
Chuck