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- From: pwheat@cup.portal.com (Philip A Wheat)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: IBM tape drive on the amiga? possible?
- Message-ID: <72168@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 21:02:01 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1gqfj4INNjf@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- >I would like to use the Colorado Access Jumbo 250 MEG tape drive on my amiga.
- >Is this possible, and how? (oh, yes, it does need to work on the amiga side -
- >a bridgeboard should allow it to work on the ibm side, but will it also be
- >a device recognized by the amiga?)
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- 'Fraid it won't work. Jumbo's use either a custom controller or the floppy
- controller (One or the other, I forget) and the software passes the data to
- the hardware. No software for the Amiga side! (I thought about this one
- myself, seeing how cheap the darn things are.)
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- Philip A Wheat Jackson, MS
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- Douglas Adams was almost right... It's called ORBITING when you throw youself
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