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From: sysop@insider.zer.sub.org
Subject: Re: A3070 Tape Drive programming
Organization: fulmin Ebersburg/Rhoen
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Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1991 16:35:38 GMT
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(Hey guys, how 'bout moving this to an -OFFICIAL- CSA-group ?)

>   If AmigaUX is to be release as a software product and A3070 is the only
> officially supported tape driver, many users would be no choice but to buy
> this drive, even though there are no support for AmigaDOS. Methinks the 

As the Amiga will take almost ANY `normal' SCSI-Streamer, there is no such
thing as `only supported Streamer'. I have the case from one company, the
soft from another and put a nomale Cypher streamer in it, and it works...

> Or should I have opted for WangTek or Archive ? But I might have hassle 
> in case of AmigaUX as well.  I would like additional doc for my A3070 too.

Hey, these things (at least speaking for Wangtek, Caliper and Cypher) DO
have akind of a standard built in... your software won't care if it's one
or the other...

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