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From: wjb@cogsci.cog.jhu.edu (William J. Bogstad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Tape drives on parallel printer ports??? (shareable tapes drives?)
Message-ID: <03.Jan.91.191320.21@cogsci.cog.jhu.edu>
Date: 4 Jan 91 00:13:20 GMT
Organization: JHU Cognitive Science Center, Baltimore, MD
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	The subject is the question.  Are there any tape drives available in
the PC marketplace which can run off of your parallel printer port?  There
seem to be many network adapters and now floppy and hard disks, but I have
never heard of a tape drive.  Such a device would be a great help to
managers of micros who don't have networks.  Just carry the drive from
office to office plug the power cord into the wall socket and the data cable
onto the printer port.  It would seem to have great market potential to me.
I would even consider an external tape drive which used a VERY inexpensive
adapter.  Like, maybe $30-40 each.  I would want to pay $350-500 dollars for
the drive itself, which should hold at least 60 Megabytes uncompressed.

				Thanks,
				Bill Bogstad