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Northern Telecom Flashback

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From: Al Kossow
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1989 07:09
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I picked up some Northern Telecom Flashback tape drives cheap
this weekend. They are pretty strange.. Q02 interface, takes
DC-300 style tapes, but they are 12 track instead of the usual
4 or 9. I wasn't able to read a QIC-24 formatted tape on them.

I'm wondering how weird these drives are..

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Al "Hax R Us" Kossow @ Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA

Internet: aek@apple.com
Phone:   (408) 974-5136
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From: aek@Apple.COM (Al Kossow)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Northern Telecom Flashback
Message-ID: <36778@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 26 Nov 89 07:09:59 GMT
Organization: Advanced Technology Group, Apple Computer, Cupertino CA
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