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From: gregw@sugar.hackercorp.com (Greg White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: HD Backup (Colorado Memory Systems)
Keywords: HD HardDrive Backup Tape Colorado
Message-ID: <4787@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 17 Dec 89 21:53:49 GMT
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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   Has anyone taken a look at interfacing a Colorado Memory Systems
Streaming Tape Backup unit to an Amiga? I'm seeing these units
advertised for about $250 with cartridges going for about $30. The units
apparently interface to an IBM compatible XT/AT/PS2 floppy controller and
depending on softare (compression/nocompression), a single cartridge will
handle 40,60 or 120 megabytes.
   At first glance it would seem that we are merely looking at having a 
device driver written for it. Anyone up to writing a PD or shareware
version? The Amiga world certainly needs a low cost HD backup method and
this looks like it might be it if only someone would handle the 
interface.
 
Greg