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From: hutch@fps.com (Jim Hutchison)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Want Start/Stop tape, drives vanishing
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Date: 14 Aug 90 01:09:19 GMT
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Reply-To: hutch@fps.com (Jim Hutchison)
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Start/stop tape drives seem to be vanishing from the market place.  I am
looking for one (in quantity) which goes atleast 75ips at 6250bpi (GCR).
Pertec or SCSI interfaces are acceptable to the general computing product this
would be a part of.

Our desire for start/stop drives relates to a general mix of applications.
Some smart applications can stream tape easily, even at 200ips, but most
applications do not think about tape so expertly.

I've seen such a drive from Telex (75ips, 6250bpi), but it seems to behave
strangely on the Datalink STK interface it connects to.
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Jim Hutchison   	{dcdwest,ucbvax}!ucsd!fps!hutch
Disclaimer:  I am not an official spokesman for FPS computing