[Simh] VAX 8200

[Wilm Boerhout]

Gary Lee Phillips schreef op 17-3-2017 om 16:54:
> Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com <mailto:ethan.dicks at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> >That's earlier than is possible... the model was introduced in Jan,
> >1986.  Don't know date of first ship.
>
> Well I did say "around 1985 or so." After 30+ years, I'd say that was 
> a pretty close guess.
>
> The tape drive was not TK50. It was standard reel to reel media, 
> horizontal like an studio audio tape deck, with a cover that had to be 
> lifted in order to use it. The disk drive was housed in the same 
> cabinet in a drawer below the tape unit. The tape drive was "finicky" 
> and seemed to work only with tapes ordered through DEC. The standard 
> tapes our much larger IBM shop used never read back correctly when 
> written on it.
Could it have been a TS11, nicknamed "Tape Stretcher-11" by those (me 
included) who tried to use it with ever longer, reels of tape and thus 
ever thinner tape?

/*Wilm*