Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!imagen!atari!portal!cup.portal.com!BruceH From: BruceH@cup.portal.com (Bruce Robert Henderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT backup-systems Message-ID: <14912@cup.portal.com> Date: 21 Feb 89 16:00:01 GMT References: <6501@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Distribution: usa Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 6 Actually, they are SCSI based. Some of the Mac venders who have them are Jasmine and PCPC. The only problem is... they will sell you the unit, but they won't tell you thing 1 about the protocalls [apart for the standard SCSI] used to get the data out there. If me brave soul were to write a tar/cpio driver for such a widget, the whole software distribution/backup issue could be resolved...