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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-10-09 21:22, JF Mezei wrote:
> On 12-10-09 10:03, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>
>> I scrounged and switched to DLT an aeon ago,
>
> How different is DLT from the original TK50 ? Same general design inside
> the drive ?
>
> Is DLT basically an incremental improvement on the TK50/TK70/Dectape III
> ?  Or does have have radical differences in how the tape travels when
> the data is read/written ?

COMPACTTAPE III ?
Yes, as far as I know, it's the same design. Isn't the COMPACTTAPE III 
actually the same as the TK87? I think that drive can even read TK50 and 
TK70 tapes, but not write them.

	Johnny