Re: At&T Unix PC, Tape drive

2020-05-04 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 5/4/20 6:17 AM, systems_glitch via cctalk wrote: > The tape interface I have for my UNIX PC is indeed a floppy tape interface, > says "FTAPE" near the connector on the outside. I haven't paired a drive > with it yet. Easy enough to tell without opening things up. The Cipher 525 is a full-heigh

Re: At&T Unix PC, Tape drive

2020-05-04 Thread systems_glitch via cctalk
The tape interface I have for my UNIX PC is indeed a floppy tape interface, says "FTAPE" near the connector on the outside. I haven't paired a drive with it yet. Thanks, Jonathan On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 1:16 PM emanuel stiebler via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 2020-05-02 11:32, Chu

Re: At&T Unix PC, Tape drive

2020-05-02 Thread emanuel stiebler via cctalk
On 2020-05-02 11:32, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > On 5/2/20 6:21 AM, emanuel stiebler via cctalk wrote: >> Hi, >> during my move, I think I lost my tape drive, which was attached to my >> at&t unix pc (68000 based). >> Anybody knows of the top of their head, if I could read the tapes on any >> o

Re: At&T Unix PC, Tape drive

2020-05-02 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 5/2/20 8:52 AM, Patrick Finnegan via cctalk wrote: > I think a UNIX PC is a 3B1, not a 3B2. > Yes, the 7300/3B1 was officially the "Unix PC". My point was that the 3B2 notes say that particular system used the Cipher 525 floppytape and was 23 MB capacity. This agrees with what I know about

Re: At&T Unix PC, Tape drive

2020-05-02 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 05/02/2020 08:21 AM, emanuel stiebler via cctalk wrote: Hi, during my move, I think I lost my tape drive, which was attached to my at&t unix pc (68000 based). Anybody knows of the top of their head, if I could read the tapes on any other machine? Was it anything "standard", or did they do thei

Re: At&T Unix PC, Tape drive

2020-05-02 Thread Patrick Finnegan via cctalk
On Sat, May 2, 2020, 11:32 Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > On 5/2/20 6:21 AM, emanuel stiebler via cctalk wrote: > > Hi, > > during my move, I think I lost my tape drive, which was attached to my > > at&t unix pc (68000 based). > > Anybody knows of the top of their head, if I could read the tapes

Re: At&T Unix PC, Tape drive

2020-05-02 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 5/2/20 6:21 AM, emanuel stiebler via cctalk wrote: > Hi, > during my move, I think I lost my tape drive, which was attached to my > at&t unix pc (68000 based). > Anybody knows of the top of their head, if I could read the tapes on any > other machine? Was it anything "standard", or did they do t

At&T Unix PC, Tape drive

2020-05-02 Thread emanuel stiebler via cctalk
Hi, during my move, I think I lost my tape drive, which was attached to my at&t unix pc (68000 based). Anybody knows of the top of their head, if I could read the tapes on any other machine? Was it anything "standard", or did they do their own at at&t? Cheers & thanks!