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From: amw@ulysses.UUCP (Andrew Wild)
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Subject: VersaBus Tape Controllers anybody ?
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Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 21:48:07 EST
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I have before me a rather nice box (a CCI Power 6/32, but let's not
start advertising for them, shall we) about to have a large amount
of disk capacity descend upon it.  Unfortunately the Analysts, along
with their 150,000 tapes of data, have decreed that they'll stick to
the (slower) 11/785s unless there's some way of reading in the afore-
mentioned data.  Preferably not across the Ethernet.
.P
We presently have a 25ips (if that) 1600bpi Cipher taking up space.
We *need* something like 120+ips, 6250/1600bpi start-stop.  Our present
controller is for a Multibus, with an adaptor (the correct titles are:
Ciprico TAPEMASTER with a Helvetta Engineering adaptor).

Education regarding straight VersaBus or `safe' combinations of foreign
boards and adaptors will be appreciated, and/or descriptions of
standard interfaces to real tape decks.
-- 

					Andrew Wild.

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