Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!ucbvax!LBL.GOV!nagy%warner.hepnet From: nagy%warner.hepnet@LBL.GOV (Frank J. Nagy, VAX Wizard & Guru) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: VaxBI 800 bpi tape drives [a semi-crazy solution] Message-ID: <880530071428.23e03b4b@LBL.Gov> Date: 30 May 88 14:14:28 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 13 > Does anybody know how to hook up any 800 BPI tape drive to a VAX BI > machine? We have an ongoing need for 800 bpi capability (incoming > petrophysical field tapes) that will need to be read on an 8810. > We will NOT have a Unibus, so other suggestions would help. An off the wall suggestion: get a MicroVAX, buy a tape controller and hook your 800 bpi tape to it and then make the MicroVAX and LAVC satellite with the 8810 the boot member. = Frank J. Nagy "VAX Guru & Wizard" = Fermilab Research Division EED/Controls = HEPNET: WARNER::NAGY (43198::NAGY) or FNAL::NAGY (43009::NAGY) = BitNet: NAGY@FNAL = USnail: Fermilab POB 500 MS/220 Batavia, IL 60510