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From: johan@cwi.nl (Johan Wolleswinkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: using an IBM 6157 tape streamer with MS-DOS ??
Message-ID: <420@turing.cwi.nl>
Date: 22 Apr 88 10:01:17 GMT
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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Keywords: tapestreamer


We've got some IBM 6157 Streaming Tape Drives, which are intended
for use with an RT; they use 37-pins connectors; the tape cassette
to be used can be a 45 Mbyte DC 300 XL/P from 3M.
We would like to couple some of these devices with MS-DOS machines.

After the IBM representative we consulted it is impossible
(by the way, this man thought, that an RT is another model in the
MS-DOS- range, somewhere in between an XT and an AT; doesn't this
sound reasonable -:).

I can hardly believe, that anyone, even IBM, would make a tapestreamer
to be used only with a very specific machine like the RT.
So I'm almost convinced, that it can be used with other machines.

If somebody used this streamer 6157 on a MS-DOS (or on another machine)
I would be glad to get some information about it.
We even don't know the pin-layout or command structure; so if
somebody knows, or even only knows how to get technical documentation
about it, that information would be welcome as well.
Please respond by E- mail.

Thanks.
-- 
                                                 Johan Wolleswinkel
CWI, Postbus 4079, 1009 AB  Amsterdam,  Kruislaan 413, The Netherlands
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