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From: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Tape Backup
Keywords: mountain archive cms tape backup
Message-ID: <1631@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Date: 30 Jul 89 22:52:06 GMT
References: <617@dekalb.UUCP>
Reply-To: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Organization: Engineering Computer Lab, Penn State University
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In article <617@dekalb.UUCP> greg@dekalb.UUCP (Greg Philmon) writes:
|I'm interested in getting an inexpensive internal (or external) tape backup for
|an IBM PC clone.  I currently have two floppies, and will not give up my B:
|drive. 
|
|Most of the DC2000 units I've seen connect to the floppy controller, thus
|allowing you only a single floppy.  I have heard that Mountain makes a drive
|that can be daisy-chained from the B: drive, thus allowing you both floppies.
|
|Can anyone confirm/deny this claim?  Yes, I know that you can get a separate
|controller for the tape drive, but seven of my 8 slots are already full and I'd
|like to find a "slotless" solution, if it exists.

I can confirm the claim.  I have installed "Swan" tape drives (repackaged
Mountain drives) in computers with B drives already and lost nothing.  You
can look in PC Magazine for Tussey Computer Product's ad, get the Swan XT/AT
internal tape backup (or, of course, you can get it straight from Mountain,
or from another mail order company -- it's just that this one is a sure
thing.)

  Bill
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