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From: ward@unix386.Convergent.COM (Ward Griffiths)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: mystery boards
Message-ID: <6411@unix386.Convergent.COM>
Date: 5 Mar 91 22:23:19 GMT
References: <1991Feb22.201817.2642@appmag.com> <1991Feb23.202138.934@ceilidh.beartrack.com>
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dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (DoN Nichols) writes:

>In article <1991Feb22.201817.2642@appmag.com> appmag!todd@hub.ucsb.edu writes:

>>A card with a 37 pin connector.  Suspect it is for
>>floppy tape control.  Has 2 chips from Vitalec,
>>plus another that says VC2100 on it.

>	Looks like the floppy tape controller, I don't have any out to
>verify chip designations, but it is the only thing that I know of with the
>DB-37 connector.

This also might be the QIC controller board, though
of course, those are few and far between and the
compatible drive mechanisms are even less common.

I'd MUCH rather be compatible with the rest of the
world than with the 3B2/3xx.  If only the QIC tape
wasn't so slow: takes almost as much time to write
60 Mb as the floppy tape does to write 23 Mb.  Or
otherwise, about eight times as long as it takes
anything else to write 60 Mb.

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