Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!apollo!rehrauer From: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: using the Xformer cable. (Was: Translator?) Message-ID: <4c7e74bb.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> Date: 29 Aug 90 19:08:00 GMT References: <908@beguine.UUCP> <56922@microsoft.UUCP> Sender: root@apollo.HP.COM Reply-To: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer) Organization: Hewlett-Packard Apollo Division - Chelmsford, MA Lines: 15 In article kentd@FtCollins.NCR.com (Kent.Dalton) writes: >> The 410 is a WRITE ONLY device... > >You are wrong. It can be read and written to. Sayeth Foghorn Leghorn: "Thass a joke, son!" Actually, I think the 410 qualified as the first "write once, read-many" device, as in, "read many times to (maybe, eventually) retrieve what you wrote once." > It'd be worthless otherwise! It WAS all but worthless. -- >>"Aaiiyeeee! Death from above!"<< | (Steve) rehrauer@apollo.hp.com "Spontaneous human combustion - what luck!"| Apollo Computer (Hewlett-Packard)