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From: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
To: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Cc: Paul Koning <paulkoning@comcast.net>,
	"General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
	<cctalk@classiccmp.org>,
	The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] TK50, was: Re:  Ultrix Tape: Block Size?
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 09:48:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2tvljofuh.fsf@thuvia.hamartun.priv.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2tvlkvigt.fsf@thuvia.hamartun.priv.no> (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS's message of "Wed, 17 Oct 2018 14:57:38 +0200")

I wrote:

> I'll have to open up my PDP-11/83 tonight.  Its TK50 will stream while
> writing, as long as what's being written can be read reasonably fast
> from (RQDX3/RD54) disk.  The TQK controller is sitting right up at the
> top end of the Q-bus, to get high priority -- but I don't know if it's a
> TQK70.  I've really just assumed it's a TQK50 without thinking too much
> about it...

Turns out it's an M7546; a TQK50.  I guess I'll get streaming writes
more often with an M7559 (TQK70) than I do at the moment, then.  :)

-tih
-- 
Most people who graduate with CS degrees don't understand the significance
of Lisp.  Lisp is the most important idea in computer science.  --Alan Kay

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-18  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-15 19:56 [TUHS] " Warren Toomey
2018-10-15 21:00 ` Clem Cole
2018-10-15 21:01   ` Clem Cole
2018-10-15 21:34     ` Warner Losh
2018-10-16 16:57     ` Paul Winalski
2018-10-16 17:23       ` William Pechter
2018-10-16 17:34         ` Clem Cole
2018-10-16 17:34         ` Paul Winalski
     [not found]         ` <2658AACC-A451-4861-8CD8-F7E4BED8062A@comcast.net>
2018-10-17  6:14           ` [TUHS] TK50, was: " emanuel stiebler
2018-10-17 12:57             ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2018-10-18  7:48               ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS [this message]
2018-10-17 15:18             ` Clem Cole
2018-10-16 17:24       ` [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2018-10-19 21:17       ` Dave Horsfall
2018-10-15 21:52 ` Aaron Jackson

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