[Info-vax] DLT drives and antique SCSI compatibility

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 7/14/2020 12:44 PM, abrsvc wrote:
> 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.
>>
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>> 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...
> 

I've still got two TU58 (DECtape II) tapes left over from my college days.  They have some version of RT-11 (Dated 4-Nov-81) on them for the LSI-11 demo systems we got from DEC.  I spent hours putting files on the tapes in just the right order so when booting it would read linearly with no back and forth needed.  It could cut 10 minutes from the boot time.

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John H. Reinhardt