TU10 DECmagtape

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TU10
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TU 10 drive
Manufacturer: Digital Equipment Corporation


A classic big tape drive, able to store 5-20 Mytes on a 2400' 0.5" wide tape. It supports 7-track operation at 200, 556, and 800 BPI, and 9-track at 800 BPI.

The drive contains a fair amount of electronics, in the form of FLIP CHIP modules in a 19' wide wirewrap backplane.

It uses a TM11 magtape controller to connect to UNIBUS PDP-11's. The controller connects to a 'Master' drive, which includes extra modules in the backplane; details of the controller-Master interface are given here.

Additional 'Slave' drives (up to sever) may be connected to the Master drive.

Module Locations

This is the module location chart for Master drives:

Slot Top Bottom
1 G933
2 G933
3 G9341
4 G932
5 M908@ G9340
6 M958%%
7 M929@
8 M640
9 M891
10 M7673
11 M7672
12 M892
13 M895
14 M7671
15 M100 M896
16 M7670
17 M903@ G741YA%
18 M903@ G741%
19 M903@ G741%
20 M768
21 M514
22 M922@ M767
23 M050 W726
24 M890
25 M769
26 M763
27 G350
28 M765
29 G064
30 G062
31 G060
32 G050

@ = Cable
% = only at end of bus, M903 cable otherwise
%% = Not required when used with a TM1 control

Slots 6-15 are empty in Slave drives.