16 Mar
1999
16 Mar
'99
1:29 p.m.
At 10:50 PM 3/16/99 -0000, you wrote:
nothing in
They're
made for the old 3M DC-1000 tapes, DEC tapes work great.
No, I've tried DECtapes. It takes a lot of force to get them into the
slot, and they don't seem to work. :-)
For the uninitiated, DECtapes are six-inch reels of 3/4 inch (?) tape.
I think Joe is saying that the 85 needs the same cartridge tapes as the DEC
TU58 "DECtape II" drive, as commonly found on the PDP-11/44, VAX-11/750, and
other early-80s DEC machines. Despite the moniker, there is almost common between DECtape and DECtape II.
You may be right about the DEC stuff but the tapes that I have (about 20
of them) only say DECtape and they definitely fit the 9815, 9825, 9915, 85,
etc.
Joe