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From: Schauble@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA (Paul Schauble)
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Subject: Help needed with Interdyne tape drive
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Date: Sun, 13-Oct-85 17:43:43 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 13 17:43:43 1985
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Long saga of problems.

One of my consulting customers just purchased an Interdyne one-reel tape
drive from Mainstreet Computers in Texas.  This was billed as a package
containing drive, one tape, software, and documentation.

The drive arrived a few days later, with no tapes and nothing printed.
There is a floppy disk with some software and a text file that turns out
to be software documentation.  Being under a deadline to get this
working, we call Mainstreet and ask them to send out a tape by Federal
express.  The shipping costs almost as much as the tape.  They sit on
the order for three days and then ship.

Now that I have a tape to work with, I discover that just plugging the
drive into the floppy controller, as billed, does NOT work.  I think
that the option straps are set wrong, but I have no hardware
documentation or installation instructions.  We won't be dealing with
Mainstreet again.

I still have to get this thing operating soon.  It would help greatly if
someone who has either hardware doc or installation instructions could
send me a list of strap settings or contact me by mail to help.

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

I also intend to post a review of this drive when I finally get it
working.

                              Thanks,
                              Paul