>From: Tom Guptill <tgpt@pas.rochester.edu>

>Aren't the TU58's tapes simply standard QIC tapes like the ones that the
>floppy-controlled x86 tape drives used to use?

(Used to?  I still run all my backups on DC2120XLs!)  The cartridge
mechanism is the same but TU58 tapes use a totally different format, if
you look you'll see that every cartridge has a 1978 copyright on it just
for that.  It figures they were afraid of people stealing their method
for storing practically nothing on the tape.

Anyway J.T. Computer Marketing (jtcsales@jtcomputer.com) *used* to sell
used TU58Ks for a couple of bucks each, it might be worth asking them if
they still have any.  I have nothing to do with them etc...

John Wilson
D Bit