DEC Tx07 tape drive question (was Re: new scrap dealer found :>)

[Mike Cesari]

On Apr 30, 2005, at 7:39 PM, Jay West wrote:

> I'm curious about the "TZ07" tape drives I located.
>
> I'm quite positive they were SCSI 1/2 mag tape drives. However, some 
> googling on the web seems to indicate that a TZ07 is a 4mm dat? No, 
> what I saw was clearly 1/2 mag tape, front loader, horizontal drive. 
> Reminded me of an M4 9914 or Cipher F880 or was it F990...
>
> Anyways... I could be wrong about the TZ07 designation, but I was 
> pretty sure I remembered it right. Can anyone tell me if a TZ07 is in 
> fact a 1/2 front loading mag tape drive, and was it typically a given 
> set of densities or was it frequently only one or two densities?
>
> Jay
>

There is a letter missing. :-)

The DATs are TLZ07 and the 9-track would be a TSZ07.

Mike