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From: Sherwood Botsford
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 17:36

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Jeff Putnam writes
> 
> We have a WangDAT scsi dat drive that wont run on the machine
> it was purchased for.
> 
> How hard is it to hook one of these up to a NeXT (specifically
> a color slab)?  How much of a driver needs to be written?
> 
	Well an HP-DAT was shutdown, hookup, and boot.  WangDats are pretty  
much the same from all I've heard

> Is there any chance 3.0 will be released on dat tape?
> 

	Not really, but BANG (Bay Area Next Group) has discussed making tapes,  
if you give them a legal CD (Proof that you have a 3.0 registration)
> --

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