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From: cazabon@hercules (Charles Cazabon (186-003-526))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Cheap tape backup for the Bridgeboard? and maybe the Amiga too?
Keywords: tape backup Bridgeboard
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Date: 7 Jun 91 09:25:18 GMT
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In article <1991Jun6.123915.25499@ns.network.com> guy@ns.network.com (Guy D'Andrea) writes:
:I just got the latest CompuAdd catalog last week and saw that they carry their
:own name on a tape drive (Mountain makes it though) for $269.  It can handle
:40/60/120MB tapes.  Now I called to see what interface board I would need and
:the salesman said that you need to buy a special cable from them ($6.98) and
:then you plug the cable from the floppy controller to floppy A:, then B: and  
:then onto the tape backup unit!  Thats it!  I'm sure that it would not be all  
:that fast since it uses the floppy controller, but you can always tell it to 
:backup your system and walk away for a while..

I have used a number of these drives, mostly the Archive units for the IBM.
First of all, they can only run off the floppy controller if you are only
running one floppy drive.  If you have two floppies, that is all your controller
will address, and you have to buy a special controller card (about $100US).

They are fast enough for the price.  Perhaps two megs a minute minimum, up to
maybe five megs a minute for a good one.


--Chuck Cazabon, cazabon@hercules.cc.uregina.ca
* My Opinions Are Not My Own...Feel Free To Plagiarize