[Info-vax] DLT drives and antique SCSI compatibility

[abrsvc]

On Tuesday, July 14, 2020 at 1:36:47 PM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2020-07-14, abrsvc <dansabrservices at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Let's have some real fun and get support for the TU58!!  Then I can spend hours again waiting for something to load only to have the next to last tape fail...
> 
> You wrote that while I was writing my comment about the TU56/TU58. :-)
> 
> Do those units actually really still exist ???
> 
> (My comment was supposed to be a joke. :-))
> 
> Simon.
> 
> -- 
> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
> Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.

IRRC, the TU58 was "random" access and could literally take hours to read.
I'm hoping that there are none of these left.  I might have a representative tape around just to get a chuckle now and then...