[Info-vax] TK50 - this is annoying...

["Roßert G. Schaffrath"]

On 10/7/2012 9:38 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 10/5/2012 6:48 PM, Lee Gleason wrote:
>>   I recall a VAX Magic session at a DECUS convention in the mid 80s or
>> so, where someone came up on stage, and, without saying a word of
>> explanation, set a TK50 tape drive down on the floor  and proceeded to
>> smash it to pieces with a middle sized hammer. He got a standing
>> ovation.
>
> Just having tried booting from one of those is enough to sympathize
> with that action.
>
> Arne
>

As bad as TK50's were, they were a definite improvement over the TU58. 
I recall much lost time waiting for an 11/730 bootstrapping microcode 
from one of those.

In my office we still have two Dell 40GB DLT drives that are descendants 
of the TK50.  Not used much anymore except for creating the occasional 
archive.

Robert