Re: Parallel To SCSI Interface For PC

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From: fred jarvis
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 08:58

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> >In article <1993Jan2.003109.25202@kd4dts.dixie.com> jcw@kd4dts.dixie.com (Jo
> >=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.  

Why not go the other way?  There are programs to allow the drive of one
computer (the laptop in this case) to be accessed as just another drive
of the other computer (the 486) through the parallel port.  One such is
Brooklyn Bridge, published by 5th Generation Systems, which I've been
using for several months.  

Fred Jarvis     ferdie@coyote.datalog.com

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