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Revision as of 14:44, 28 February 2013


TU80
Manufacturer: Digital Equipment Corporation
Media: standard half-inch tape, 2400 ft. maximum
Tape density: 1600 bpi
Tape speed: 100 inch/sec (streaming) or 25 inch/sec (start/stop)


TU80


The TU80 was a manually-loaded nine-track tape drive sold by DEC for the PDP-11 and VAX computers.

It was manufactured for DEC by Computer Peripherals, Inc. (CPI) of Morristown, Pennsylvania. CPI was a subsidiary of Control Data Corporation (CDC), which besides being a computer manufacturer themselves also provided peripherals and storage components for other vendors.