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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!gator!medsys!wendell
- From: wendell@medsys.rn.com (Wendell Dingus)
- Subject: Re: BackPack Tape Drive Support?
- Organization: Med-Systems, Kingsport, Tennessee
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 18:24:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.182433.14385@medsys.rn.com>
- References: <1992Nov19.155038.28825@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>
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- benw@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (bennett.weber) writes:
-
- >My department may be getting some "Backpack" tape drives at work to back up
- >our PC clones...the Backpack attaches to the parallel port (no scsi, etc).
- >And I'd be able to take it home now and then to back up my Amiga.
- >Hey, it's not my first choice in tape drives, but the price is
- >right!
-
- >Anyway, does anyone know if there's a driver to handle this thing,
- >or whether any of the current backup utilities knows about it?
-
- > Thanks,
- > Ben Weber
-
- Hear hear! We've got a Backpack drive at the office and it does work very
- nicely. Pop that baby on the parallel port and get some AmigaOS software
- for it and I'd be very happy. Whatever happened to the tape drive Progressive
- Peripherals came out with a few years ago similar to this one? It plugged
- onto the floppy port (many of the PC tape drives do) and looked like a
- Colorado DJ10 in a custom case. Is this thing still around? Shouldn't
- be too bad getting their software to work with a parallel port connected
- drive, and there would be a nice portable tape drive solution.
-
-
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