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unusual facts about tape drive



SA10

One of Systems Concepts' major products, the SA-10, was an interface which allowed PDP-10s to be connected to disk and tape drives designed for use with the channel interfaces of IBM mainframes.

VS/9

This included RCA's Spectra series of computers, various external hardware designs (such as video terminals, tape drives and punched card readers), and its operating system, Time Sharing Operating System (TSOS).


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Data General Eclipse

It was configured with two Ampex CRTs, an 80 mb Ampex disk drive, a thermal printer, and a 9-track tape drive.