The tape drives are from a 3000 system. I do have an original cdc 170 series console and it would be a big deal and a nice project to get the console and the tape drives connected to dtcyber, since I lost almost any hope to get a real cy17x or 18x.
I'll be back home tomorrow and have a detailed look at the peripheral controller. Fortunately I do have a lot of spares. -- Andreas > Am 12.08.2016 um 15:59 schrieb Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net>: > > >> On Aug 11, 2016, at 10:27 PM, asw...@t-online.de wrote: >> >> I do have two original CDC 603 tape drives with controller, but to be honest >> it would be quite a challenge to hook them to a modern system. > > 603? My manuals don't go back that far. What kind of drive is that, and > what does the controller connect to? > > If it's a 6000 series channel interface, then that's very easy to deal with. > Channel to PCI-e interfaces have been built (out of FPGAs) and hooked up to > DtCyber. If it's some other type of channel, the same sort of answer would > apply; none of those old channels are all that complex. > > paul > >
