http://www.sgi.com/products/appsdirectory.dir/Applications/Peripherals/ApplicationNumber5741.html (Silicon Surf Promotional CD, 01/1995)The Sony DIR-1000 is a high performance digital tape recorder able to record up to 100 Gbytes on an industry standard D-1 cassette, using the ANSI ID-1 format. Random access to data on the tape is supported.
The SRi356 provides the capability to control the recorder and exchange data with the recorder via a number of interfaces. Control may be exercised via fast wide SCSI-2 or an RS-422 serial port. Data may be transferred through fast wide SCSI-2 or through an external data port at rates up to 20 Mbytes/s peak and 16 Mbytes/s sustained.
Peter Middleton
Managing Director Signal Computing Ltd. 20 Nugent Road The Surrey Research Park Guildford, Surrey GU2 5AF UK 011-44-483-579-900 fax:011-44-483-62-836