UNIBUS TU56 controller other than the TC11?
b...@jfcl.com
Was there ever any UNIBUS TU56 DECtape controller other than the
TC11? I'm thinking of the TD8E, which was a single quad sized non-DMA
TU56 controller for the 8/E-A; was there ever anything like that for
the PDP-11?
I've got a 11/04 that works now and a TU56 drive that I'd love to put
together, but there's no way I'm ever going to find a TC11. I'm hoping
for something simpler.
I've also got an RK05 drive, but no RK11-D. I could always put an
RL02 or RX02 drive on the 11/04, but that seems soooo booring :-)
Thanks,
Bob Armstrong
John Santos
b...@jfcl.com says...
>
> Was there ever any UNIBUS TU56 DECtape controller other than the
> TC11? I'm thinking of the TD8E, which was a single quad sized non-DMA
> TU56 controller for the 8/E-A; was there ever anything like that for
> the PDP-11?
Don't recall any.
>
> I've got a 11/04 that works now and a TU56 drive that I'd love to put
> together, but there's no way I'm ever going to find a TC11. I'm hoping
> for something simpler.
>
Aha! I know where there's one (at least, where there was one a couple
of years ago.) At a DECUSXXXXXXENCOMPASS LUG meeting (March 2004,
IIRC), we were given a tour of the computer room at Spit Brook Rd.
(Not the shiny customer demo room, the *real* computer room.) In a
corner hidden behind a filing cabinet was a dual TU56/TC11 with a
post-it note that said "Property of Andy Goldstein - Do Not Touch".
Does anyone know if there is a USB-Unibus adapter? :-)
> I've also got an RK05 drive, but no RK11-D. I could always put an
> RL02 or RX02 drive on the 11/04, but that seems soooo booring :-)
>
Sorry, threw one away about 6-7 years ago. I offered up all the
stuff free to pick up or for postage on the news group, but didn't
have any takers. (The DELUA's, UDA50's, KMC-11's, etc. were popular.
didn't have any takers for the big stuff, CPUs, cabinets, disk drives.
Don't remember what happened to most of it.)
> Thanks,
> Bob Armstrong
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John
