[rescue] Of rubber and rotating parts....

[Carl R. Friend]

    On Sat, 19 May 2007, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> Do you think [the Wangco] would be similar to more modern
> SCSI 9-track drives?

    It's not even close.  The interface is a delightfully simple
affair with pretty much straight control lines to control stop/
start and two channels (one for read, one for write) for each of
the nine bits.  There's an adapter interface that is shimmed in
between the drive and a fairly generic Data General magtape
control board.

    This stuff predates SCSI.  That, and most "modern" drives
tend to be streamers; this one's a full stop/start that come down
from full speed to zero, and accelerate back to full in the IRG.

> http://www.series80.org/Articles/capstan-repair.html

    Thanks for that!

    Cheers.

+------------------------------------------------+---------------------+
| Carl Richard Friend (UNIX Sysadmin)            | West Boylston       |
| Minicomputer Collector / Enthusiast            | Massachusetts, USA  |
| mailto:crfriend at rcn.com                        +---------------------+
| http://users.rcn.com/crfriend/museum           | ICBM: 42:22N 71:47W |
+------------------------------------------------+---------------------+