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From: buck@siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: 6157-002 tape drive - is it compatible with anything?
Message-ID: <464@siswat.UUCP>
Date: 7 Nov 89 15:02:44 GMT
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In article <1989Nov6.192632.9113@arnor.uucp>, uri@gondor.UUCP (Uri Blumenthal) writes:
< 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?

Sure, it is a standard QIC-120/150 drive.  And the 6157-002 is simply
a standard Cypher cartridge drive with a different color scheme and
three extra letters, for which you can pay an extra $1000 or so. :-)

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A. Lester Buck		...!texbell!moray!siswat!buck