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Article #1379Re: using an IBM 6157 tape streamer with MS-DOS ??
From: Jon Greenblatt
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1988 22:32
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1988 22:32
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In article <420@turing.cwi.nl> johan@cwi.nl (Johan Wolleswinkel) writes: > >We've got some IBM 6157 Streaming Tape Drives, which are intended >for use with an RT; they use 37-pins connectors; the tape cassette >to be used can be a 45 Mbyte DC 300 XL/P from 3M. >We would like to couple some of these devices with MS-DOS machines. > >After the IBM representative we consulted it is impossible >(by the way, this man thought, that an RT is another model in the >MS-DOS- range, somewhere in between an XT and an AT; doesn't this >sound reasonable -:). . . . There is a product called Sytos which uses the RT streaming tape on the AT and PS/2, It's by the Sytron Corporation. V2.0 works with PS/2's, V1.X didn't. It looks like an IBM supported product from looking at the liscence agreement. On a PS/2 I backed up a 30meg disk in 6 minutes! Jon Greenblatt.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!umd5!jonnyg From: jonnyg@umd5.umd.edu (Jon Greenblatt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: using an IBM 6157 tape streamer with MS-DOS ?? Message-ID: <2591@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 22 Apr 88 22:32:34 GMT References: <420@turing.cwi.nl> Reply-To: jonnyg@umd5 (Jon Greenblatt) Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 20 Keywords: tapestreamer