Re: System for Duplicating Tapes

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David...

I'ld get a BARE BONES system, with all the IOP's and dev's that you would
need...and make sure it has enough card slots for all the devices you want
to hang on it...slap a ethernet card in it so you can program it from
another existing box (no additional compilers, etc)...make sure you have
enough CPU and CORE to get the throughput you want...the smaller the CPU
the better...and I'ld tend to be current on the O/S...not because of not
being able to copy tapes (I think DUPTAP can do damn near anything!...even
mainframe stuff!), but because I prefer to not have to remember how I did
things back 10 years ago...

Slap a Dec Dta 486 series terminal on it (they can run 3 sessions from 1
device) and it will serve as console and 2 additional terminals and you
can ether the world from there...

Don in DC

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