Colorado Jumbo 250 software interface?

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From: Walter Lundby
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 18:04

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I have a Colorado 250 tape drive which uses DC-2120 tapes.
Does anybody know of a programming interface specification
to this machine?

I am asking as I am considering two alternate uses for this
device.  One is as a backing store for a virtual hard disk.
This requires a different interface than that supplied with
the drive.   The other use would be to back up a pc running 
one of the unix variants (386BSD or linux).  If drivers are
too hard to obtain for those OS's I won't even consider installing
with them.

Any information would be appreciated.   My mail address is 
messed up so please reply via follow-up postings.

Walter Lundby
lundby@adobe.rtsg.mot.com

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