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From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Have tape drives. Need help. (Please!)
Message-ID: <1991May11.202339.1322@spcvxb.spc.edu>
Date: 11 May 91 20:23:39 GMT
References: <75998@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Organization: St. Peter's College, US
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In article <75998@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, maxwell@acsu.buffalo.edu (john h maxwell) writes:
>     I have a couple of (don't laugh) TE-16 9-track tape drives and have no
> manuals/prints/whatever for them. One is drive 0 and has a formatter (?)
> unit which I believe controls slave units in the chain, the other is unit 1
> and leads me to believe that these machines worked together at least in some
> manner in the past.

  I believe those are "Massbus" tape drives. If so, they'd use either an RH11
controller (in non-11/70 Unibus systems) or an RH70 (in an 11/70). The RH11
comes in a dedicated 9-slot backplane for insertion in a BA11 expansion box;
the RH70 goes in dedicated slots in the 11/70 backplane.

  If you'd like to know more, send direct mail.

	Terry Kennedy		Operations Manager, Academic Computing
	terry@spcvxa.bitnet	St. Peter's College, US
	terry@spcvxa.spc.edu	(201) 915-9381