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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <k4upul$8rl$2 at iltempo.update.uu.se>,
	Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> On 2012-10-08 13:28, "Roßert G. Schaffrath" wrote:
>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> 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.
> 
> I don't entirely agree. While the TU58 was horrible as far as speed goes 
> (and capacity), it at least didn't have the weird error behavior of the 
> TK50.
> 

As long as we are talking TU58's here....

Now that we have a suitable emulator for the TU58 has anyone ever tried
"redefining" it so that it could be run at a higher baudrate and with
greater capacity?  Compared to a real TU58 the emulator should scream
as it has no physical movement and is pretty much a random access device.

bill
(always looking to push the envelope!!!)
:-)

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