TK60 ;-) DEC CompacTape I/II bastard

[Michael Sokolov]

Arno Kletzander <Arno_1983 at gmx.de> wrote:

> and the board installed bears the number "5017683-01-B1-P2" on the solder
> side and the designation "TZK-50" on the component side. I suppose this has
> to match the transport in order to have a functional unit (unless the TK70
> is smart enough to say: "You think I'm a TK50, so I'm gonna act as if I was
> one!").

I have previously heard of people connecting TK50 drives to TK70 controllers.
Supposedly it results in better performance.  I don't know if you lose the
ability to write TK50 tapes this way or not.

This is the first time I hear about the opposite combination, but I have
to assume it works - whoever put it together obviously had it working,
otherwise the combo you have in your hands would not exist.  But I won't
venture a guess as to whether that combo can read/write TK70 tapes or just
read TK50s.

MS