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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: 6157-002 tape drive - is it compatible with anything?
Message-ID: <496@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 7 Nov 89 17:43:03 GMT
References: <9037@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <1989Nov6.192632.9113@arnor.uucp> <464@siswat.UUCP>
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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In article <464@siswat.UUCP> buck@siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck) writes:
>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. :-)

Are you telling me that there is some way to connect a Cipher 150mb drive
to the IBM cartridge tape controller and expect it to work?  I'm all ears...

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Steve Dyer
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