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- From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
- Subject: Re: Parallel To SCSI Interface For PC
- Organization: The College On The Other Side Of Route One
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 17:05:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <C0AFGu.H3K@mccc.edu>
- References: <1993Jan2.003109.25202@kd4dts.dixie.com>
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- In article <1993Jan2.003109.25202@kd4dts.dixie.com> jcw@kd4dts.dixie.com (John C. Wren) writes:
- =Does anyone out here in netland know of a device that would let me connect
- =my laptop (with no expansion slots, but with a parallel port) to the SCSI
- =chain on my '486 so that I can treat the 120mb drive on the laptop as a
- =disk drive on the '486?
- =
- =What I want to accomplish is being able to backup the laptop drive to the
- =tape system on my '486. It would also be useful for installing software
- =from the CD ROM drive on the '486 onto the laptop.
- =
- =Any information would be appreciated.
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- Don't know if this will work, but you might contact the folks at
- Trantor. They have a parallel-to-SCSI adaptor that works quite well.
- Trantor Systems, Ltd.
- 5415 Randall Place
- Fremont CA 94538-3151
-