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From: cmdglv@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu (Mark Gleaves)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: P70 tape drives
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Date: 4 Jan 91 19:53:23 GMT
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We would like to attach an external tape drive to our PS/2 Model P70.  For
those of you who don't know, the P70 only has two expansion slots, one 
long and one short.  The long slot is filled and the short slot is so short
that very, very few MCA cards can fit into it.

Therefore, we're looking for a tape unit that doesn't need a controller card.
I know there are plenty of tape drives that use either the serial port or the
parallel port, but I was wondering if anybody knew of a tape drive that
plugs into the "external storage device port" of the P70.  This is a square,
thirty-pin plug on the back of the P70 that (I believe) is designed to connect
to an external floppy drive.

Does anyone out there manufacture a tape drive that can be plugged into this?

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