TK70 tape drive media?

Richard legalize at xmission.com
Thu Jan 26 16:33:28 CST 2006


In article <200601262230.k0QMU7qR005246 at onyx.spiritone.com>,
    "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>  writes:

> > What do you use in this thing?  I've got a VAX 4000/300 with a TK70,
> > but it didn't come with any media and I'm wondering what I should be
> > looking for to feed it :)
> 
> Compact Tape II's (aka TK70's :^)
> 
> Might be easier to find a TK50 drive, and controller, or get a CD-ROM hooked
> in there.  I have to question weather a TK70 is worth the effort in this day
> and age, unless you're trying to *read* tapes.  Sadly, TK50's are still
> worth the trouble, at least on a PDP-11.

That's kinda what I figured.  It looked like a weird DEC proprietary
form factor for the media.  A quick google didn't turn up any obvious
discussion of the media.  The machine has ethernet and I'm not sure, but
it might also have a SCSI interface.  With ethernet I can get data into/out
of the machine (heck, even the console interface can do that, but
ethernet would be more expedient).
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