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Re: 6157-002 tape drive - is it compatible with anything?

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From: Daniel Ehrlich
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1989 16:19
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In article <1989Nov6.192632.9113@arnor.uucp> uri@gondor.UUCP (Uri Blumenthal) writes:

Uri> From article by luner@werewolf.CS.WISC.EDU (David L. Luner):
> 
> If I recall correctly, and I'll check tonight, a -002 *can* read tapes 
> written by a -001, but not the other way around. (And there is no way
> to make a -002 write tapes in such a way that a -001 can read them).

Uri> OK, another question from the same group (:-). Can ANYTHING in the
Uri> Universe (except another RT, or another 6157-002 :-) *read* the tape
Uri> written by a -002 ? Is it QIC-???, or what?

Uri> Thanks to everybody who'll give the correct answer (:-).

I believe that it is QIC-40.

--
Dan Ehrlich <ehrlich@cs.psu.edu>
"A message is not a message until the rules for interpreting it
 are in the hands of the receiver." --Apollo Belvedere Smith
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