On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Brian Chase wrote:

> The FAQ also mentions that the DEC TZ85 and TZ86 drives only accept
> CompacTape-III media.  My question is "To what extent does the TZ87
> support CompacTape and CompacTape-II media?"  Can it read and write
> to those tape formats, or can it only read them?

According to my handy 1995 DECdirect catalog, it's read-only.  Also, in
typical DEC fashion they sold a slightly cheaper version, the TZ87N,
without the backward compatibility feature.

                 -- Brian


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The Johns Hopkins University
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