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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Wangtek 5099
Message-ID: <1991Mar16.161221.497@virtech.uucp>
Date: 16 Mar 91 16:12:21 GMT
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dsr@cci632.UUCP (David Roland) writes:

>Further on this topic, When I bought my 5099 off the net, the board is a pc-36.
>The ribbon cable is 50 pin (I think). Hey.. doesn't 50 pin imply SCSI?

50 pins implies that the card *probably* needes 50 lines of communication
between it and the tape controller. It does not imply what communications 
protocols are being used. In fact, they may have chosen to use a 50 pin
conector because they needed 37 pins and the next number that has a highly
available set of parts was 50 (remember the 8088 and it's 8 bit parts).

The language spoken there is probably QIC-02 (or pc-02, what ever the
nomenclature acutally is).

>Or would they make it some other proprietary interface, just to be 'different'?

I don't think it was to be 'different', but rather just a different standard.

>Anyone want to enlighten me to what else I can do with this combination under
>ISC 2.0.2?

Nothing.

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