Re: Overland T490 cartridge tape drive and autoloader

2021-12-10 Thread nico de jong via cctalk
Hello Peter Yes, the drive is 3480 compatible. I have only seen them as "normal" SCSI, but that is not the same as saying that differential versions do not exist. I believe I have a manual somewhere, but can't look into it until mid next week I'll get back to you if I find it Nico On 2021-12-0

Re: Overland T490 cartridge tape drive and autoloader

2021-12-09 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 12/9/21 3:20 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote: Many years ago, a friend gave me an Overland T490 tape drive which has some kind of autoloader attached which takes ten tapes. I was told it came out of a Tandem system. The tapes are square cartridges similar but different to a DEC TK50. I c

Overland T490 cartridge tape drive and autoloader

2021-12-09 Thread Peter Coghlan via cctalk
Many years ago, a friend gave me an Overland T490 tape drive which has some kind of autoloader attached which takes ten tapes. I was told it came out of a Tandem system. The tapes are square cartridges similar but different to a DEC TK50. I can't find very much information about the drive on the