DECtape
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DECtape, originally called Microtape, is a magnetic tape data storage medium used with many Digital Equipment Corporation computers, including the PDP-1, PDP-4, PDP-6, PDP-8, LINC-8, PDP-9, PDP-10, PD
A TU56 dual DECtape unit for a DEC PDP-11. Note the 6-armed "starfish" hubs holding circular white tape reels in place. The vertical aluminium block above each pair of tape reels holds the read/write heads.
A partially restored LINC-8, including LINCtape drives
COI LINC Tape II drive
DECtape (top and lower left) and DECtape II (lower right) removable magnetic media
PDP-11
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The PDP-11 is a series of 16-bit minicomputers originally sold by Digital Equipment Corporation from 1970 into the late 1990s, one of a set of products in the Programmed Data Processor series. In tota
A PDP-11/40 CPU is at the bottom, with a TU56 dual DECtape drive installed above it.
This PDP-11/70 system included two nine-track tape drives, two disk drives, a high speed line printer, a DECwriter dot-matrix keyboard printing terminal and a cathode ray tube terminal, all installed in a climate-controlled machine room.
PDP-11/03 (top right)
Q-Bus board with LSI-11/2 CPU