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From: root@paideia.uchicago.edu (Richard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Driver for HP7979A on HP9000/500
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Date: 2 Feb 89 00:09:48 GMT
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>I don't know of any driver but the 7979/80 tape drives can emulate the
>7974/78 tape drives which are supportted on the S-500. You just use the
>front panel on the tape drive to change the configuration. I use this on
>my S-500 and it works fine.

I have looked at my 7979A manual, but have unable to discover how
one might do this. Could someone please tell me?

		Richard Congdon
		UofC Social Sciences Division Computing
		richard@{cicero,paideia}.uchicago.edu