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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]
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Date: 30 May 88 14:14:28 GMT
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> 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"
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