[Info-vax] DLT drives and antique SCSI compatibility

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-07-14 kl. 19:36, skrev Simon Clubley:
> 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 ???

Of course they do... :-)

Here is a thread on the "Swedish Electronics Forum" (in Swedish)
where a guy renovates a PDP-8A including a TU56 drive.

A lot of fault tracing and fixing old PDP boards including sourcing
some old DEC ICs.

He actually also designs and build replacement boards for such things
as the M960 TU55/TU56 controller and other stuff.

https://elektronikforumet.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1502797#p1502797

Hope that it is possible to read the forum as a guest...

Jan-Erik.



> 
> (My comment was supposed to be a joke. :-))
> 
> Simon.
>