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From: rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: PC Tools backup under OS/2 1.3 DOS box
Keywords: backup HPFS PCTools
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.043656.3655@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
Date: 21 Jun 91 04:36:56 GMT
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In article <1991Jun20.132901.3330@unixg.ubc.ca> ballard@ucs.ubc.ca (Alan Ballard) writes:
>What more could I want?  Support for DC2000 tape drives.  At least the last 
>time I checked, it supported diskettes, DC6000 and 8mm of various types. 
>But NONE of the small, cheap, floppy-disk-attachable tape drives that 
>are the most sensible and economic backup for small systems.  
Colorado Memory Systems has announced that they "will address the OS/2
product line in the near future", supposedly also on their small QIC-40
and QIC-80 drives.

>If this has changed, I'd like to know about it. I'm not willing to give
>up one of my expansion slots for a tape controller. 
You have to, even with a DC-2000 drive, when you have already two floppy
drives .

Kai Uwe Rommel

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