Re: DEC UNIBUS and use of cassette

2021-08-22 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Aug 21, 2021, at 11:48 PM, Jay Jaeger via cctalk > wrote: > > ... > There were third party cassette systems, typically using some kind of digital > cassette format, that you could hook up with a terminal. One was made by > Sykes that I played with once upon a time: > > http://www.bit

Re: DEC UNIBUS and use of cassette

2021-08-22 Thread Huw Davies via cctalk
> On 22 Aug 2021, at 03:49, cctalk@classiccmp.org wrote: > > Yes and no. There is the TA11 Magnetic Tape Cassette System, which used the > TU60 Dual DECasette Transport (I need to create a page for that in the > CHWiki), but it uses a special controller card, the TA11 Magnetic Tape > Cassette c

Re: DEC UNIBUS and use of cassette

2021-08-21 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
On 8/21/2021 3:44 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 1:49 PM Noel Chiappa via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > From: Bill Degnan > Was there a UNIBUS storage system that used a cassette player as the > storage device .., rigged to send receive s

Re: DEC UNIBUS and use of cassette

2021-08-21 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 1:49 PM Noel Chiappa via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > From: Bill Degnan > > > Was there a UNIBUS storage system that used a cassette player as the > > storage device .., rigged to send receive signals via a serial card > > connection. > > Yes a

Re: DEC UNIBUS and use of cassette

2021-08-21 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Bill Degnan > Was there a UNIBUS storage system that used a cassette player as the > storage device .., rigged to send receive signals via a serial card > connection. Yes and no. There is the TA11 Magnetic Tape Cassette System, which used the TU60 Dual DECasette Transport