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In article <7389@ds5000.DAC.Northeastern.edu>, j.perry@ds5000.DAC.Northeastern.edu (Jeffrey Perry) writes:
> 
>     The Northeastern University Amateur Radio club recently received a 
>   a donation of two TU80 tape drives from the College of Computer Science
>   (also at NU) Now, our task is to learn how to connect them to our 
>   vax 11/730. Can anyone tell me what, if any,  special cards we will need

Something like a Dilog DU132 or DU142 would allow 4 of them to be connected.
If you get the original DEC controller it allows 1, but since that is really
a Dilog DU132 with castrated microcode, you might be successful swapping in
DU132 eproms to let you run both on the single controller.

Unibus controllers should be VERY cheap these days.

The TU80 is a decent CDC drive. You might want to avoid back-coated tapes
like 3M's Black Watch (#700), but I don't want to start a religous war here.
Some folks LOVE #700 in those drives despite DEC's dire warnings.