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From: rob@newsserver.sfu.ca (Rob Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: rs232 interface for tape backup
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.205423.27659@newsserver.sfu.ca>
Date: 28 Feb 91 20:54:23 GMT
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In <3370013@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com> plim@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com (Peter Lim) writes:

>/ rob@newsserver.sfu.ca (Rob Carpenter) / 10:53 am  Feb 23, 1991 /

>$ This would probably be the most desirable.
>$

>Er ... you mean MORE DESIRABLE ??  :-). No offence, but seems to me
>the most desirable so far should SCSI or other similar interface.


>Peter Lim.                     ## .... DON'T PUSH IT !!          >>>-------,
>E-mail:  plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM     Snail-mail:  Hewlett Packard Singapore,    

I believe that if you go back to the original message you will find that
the person said that they did not want to purchase additional hardware.

A SCSI controller would be additional hardware, needed for EACH
machine that he wished to backup.

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