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From: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Looking for Tape Backup
Message-ID: <1666@tekgvs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Aug-86 16:10:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekgvs.1666
Posted: Wed Aug  6 16:10:13 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 9-Aug-86 03:23:58 EDT
References: <230@butler.UUCP>
Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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In article <230@butler.UUCP> chinn@butler.UUCP (David Chinn) writes:
> We are looking around for some sort of mass storage backup...
>
> We are thinking about getting a tape drive. The problem is that we
> have about a dozen or so [pxa]t's and we would like to have a tape
> drive that we could move around easily. This means not having to pop
> the top off everytime you wanted to backup a different machine...
> 
> Is there any such beast?  Any pointers to someone who might know?
> 
I have a MicroSystems International MT25 Disk Backup system that
several of us in the office use. It connects to the (37 pin?) connector
on the back of the PC and XT floppy-disk controller, so it fits the "no
top-popping" requirement. It holds up to 24 megabytes of stuff, and is
pretty fast (around a megabyte per minuste as I recall) except for the
tape formatting, which takes approximately forever!  It uses the DC600A
1/4" tape cartridges. They also sell an adapter card for AT's to provide
the missing connector, and the card can be configured to occupy some
"friendly" address so as to not conflict with the existing controller.
I've not gotten it to work with an AT that also had a PGA in it; I've
yet to verify that it works with a different display adapter (mono, CGA
or EGA), but "they" say it will...

As I recall it costs around a kilobuck when I bought it about a year
ago.

keith

Keith Ericson  at TekLabs (resident factious factotum)
Tektronix, PO 500, MS 58-383         Beaverton OR 97077        (503)627-6042
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