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From: jonnyg@umd5.umd.edu (Jon Greenblatt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: using an IBM 6157 tape streamer with MS-DOS ??
Message-ID: <2591@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 22 Apr 88 22:32:34 GMT
References: <420@turing.cwi.nl>
Reply-To: jonnyg@umd5 (Jon Greenblatt)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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Keywords: tapestreamer

In article <420@turing.cwi.nl> johan@cwi.nl (Johan Wolleswinkel) writes:
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>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 -:).
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	There is a product called Sytos which uses the RT streaming tape
on the AT and PS/2, It's by the Sytron Corporation. V2.0 works with PS/2's,
V1.X didn't. It looks like an IBM supported product from looking at the
liscence agreement. On a PS/2 I backed up a 30meg disk in 6 minutes!

						Jon Greenblatt.