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From: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: BellTech Tape Controllers (was Re: unlimited vs. 1-2 users)
Message-ID: <6816@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 7 Feb 90 09:26:44 GMT
References: <=.F1X5Gxds13@ficc.uu.net> <983@fiver.UUCP>
Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <983@fiver.UUCP> palowoda@fiver.UUCP (Bob Palowoda) writes:
>  I can't speak for John, but if there was any truth that they did
>hardware changes to their tape drive so that it only works with
>there driver software, it enough to put him at the bottom of the
>totem pole.

I've got a small collection (2-3) of these controller cards.  Except for
one PAL they are _exactly_ the "standard" (around here, anyway) QIC-02
controler card, the Everex 811B.  I have them in a box marked "Bell Tech
Tape Controller Cards (JUNK)."

kEITHe