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From: uri@gondor.UUCP (Uri Blumenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: 6157-002 tape drive - is it compatible with anything?
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Date: 6 Nov 89 19:26:32 GMT
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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).

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

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

Uri.
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