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Larsbrinkhoff: /* Term confusion */
2018-01-19T13:37:37Z
<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Term confusion</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>: OK, I'll take care of that. Basically, as I understand it (from my study of the [[TM11]]/[[TU10]] family), 'transport', 'drive' and 'unit' are pretty much synonomous. 'Controller' and 'formatter' as also somewhat synonomous. It all depends on the manufacturer though; how they paritition stuff, and how they pull out common sub-units to prevent un-needed duplication. E.g. the DEC 'master'/'slave' drive stuff. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 13:33, 19 January 2018 (CET)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>: OK, I'll take care of that. Basically, as I understand it (from my study of the [[TM11]]/[[TU10]] family), 'transport', 'drive' and 'unit' are pretty much synonomous. 'Controller' and 'formatter' as also somewhat synonomous. It all depends on the manufacturer though; how they paritition stuff, and how they pull out common sub-units to prevent un-needed duplication. E.g. the DEC 'master'/'slave' drive stuff. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 13:33, 19 January 2018 (CET)</div></td></tr>
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Jnc: /* Term confusion */ OK,will do
2018-01-19T12:33:36Z
<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Term confusion: </span> OK,will do</span></p>
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Larsbrinkhoff at 12:08, 19 January 2018
2018-01-19T12:08:47Z
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Larsbrinkhoff at 07:49, 19 January 2018
2018-01-19T07:49:10Z
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Larsbrinkhoff: I'm confused!
2018-01-19T06:36:54Z
<p>I'm confused!</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>I'm confused by the concepts "tape controller", "tape drive", "tape unit", etc. Can someone please make a page to clarify? [[User:Larsbrinkhoff|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff|talk]])</div>
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