Need TK30 manual

[Antonio Carlini]

>Ok, I guess it's the same as the TZ30, according to this web page:
>http://www.varx.com/mwp/TAPES/TK30.HTML 
>So TK30/TZ30, doesn't matter to me.

Humbug. How can you sit there and complain when someone 
incorrectly cites XYZ as the first Foobar and then quote some
random page as evidence that a mythical TK30 ever existed?
The TK50 was the first DEC drive of the series (the TK25
was QIC-like IIRC so I do not count that). Then along came
SCSI-ish variant followed by a real SCSI variant and a higher
capacity version (the TK70). Somewhere along the line
a more compact form of the same drive came out - that
was the TZ30. It was a TK50 in all the essentials but it
did real SCSI. Someone somewhere goofed when putting
together the web page.

Anyway, here's a picture:

http://www.compsy.de/index1.htm?gebr-vax/geb-scsi.htm~text

And here is an online book that shows you the buttons (it's
part of a DEC 4000 manual but it should be good enough).

http://www.sysworks.com.au/disk$axpdocdec971/sysman/d3qlaaa1.bkb

http://www.sysworks.com.au/disk$axpdocdec971/sysman/d3qlaaa1.p86.bkb#514

Failing that, Manx (http://vt100.net/manx) should be able to scare
up a TK50 manual - from what I remember the buttons are pretty
much the same.

If you really do want a paper manual, then it will be A5-ish in size
and with either a grey or white cover. It might say TK50 on the front
:-)

Antonio
arcarlini at iee.org

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