Man, I thought I was old school because I remember writing programs on my TI994A and saving them to magnetic cassette tape because the floppy drive wasn't available yet. I am hereby humbled.
Ah, fond memories (no pun intended). I worked with a few PDP-8s, more PDP-11s, and a ton of VAXen (~450 diskless VAXstation 2000s at once) plus many Alphas and a couple of Itaniums. But there's something about this era of computing I love. I ran an HP-1000 that had what appears to me the very same tape unit, or a close cousin. We even used it to punch a replacement loop tape for the Vertical Formatting Unit on a Centronics 703 printer.
Remex is a common drive, still in use. Made in Irvine, CA, a division of Ex-Cell-O Ex-Cell-O Corporation REMEX DIVISION 1 733 Alton Avenue / Irvine, CA 92714
Man, I thought I was old school because I remember writing programs on my TI994A and saving them to magnetic cassette tape because the floppy drive wasn't available yet. I am hereby humbled.
Ah, fond memories (no pun intended). I worked with a few PDP-8s, more PDP-11s, and a ton of VAXen (~450 diskless VAXstation 2000s at once) plus many Alphas and a couple of Itaniums. But there's something about this era of computing I love.
I ran an HP-1000 that had what appears to me the very same tape unit, or a close cousin. We even used it to punch a replacement loop tape for the Vertical Formatting Unit on a Centronics 703 printer.
I interfaced a Decitek reader and a Roytron punch to a PDP7 that is now working. Original paper tape system was stripped at Boeing.
Nice! The 8/A is the most powerful PDP8 ever made. That is if you have the options in it off course.
nice!!!
now if i could figure out my teletype to load my tapes
Were did the tape drive come from? Reminds me of the drives used on very old industrial control systems.
Remex is a common drive, still in use. Made in Irvine, CA, a division of Ex-Cell-O
Ex-Cell-O Corporation REMEX DIVISION 1 733 Alton Avenue / Irvine, CA 92714
My wife has promised me a pdp8 when we win the lottery lolol :o) Tape must have seemed so much faster after using punchcards for years on them :o)