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From: vause@cs-col.Columbia.NCR.COM (Sam Vause, NCR Corporate Customer Services)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: Converting from att 3b2 to ncr tower 32/700
Message-ID: <1990Mar9.131800.26506@cs-col.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 9 Mar 90 13:18:00 GMT
References: <90067.114005TEMNGT23@YSUB.BITNET>
Reply-To: vause@cs-col.Columbia.NCR.COM (Sam Vause)
Organization: Corporate Customer Services NCR E&M Columbia, SC
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In article <90067.114005TEMNGT23@YSUB.BITNET> TEMNGT23@YSUB.BITNET (Lou Anschuetz) writes:
>I currently have at AT&T 3B2/400 which I am replacing with an
>NCR Tower 32/700 shortly.  There is about 20MB of data I need to
>move from the 3b2 to the ncr.  ...
>Is there any way to
>move data from the 3b2 to the ncr via these tape drives????
>
>I have this terrible feeling that I am going to have to asynch
>download.......  tell me it ain't so.

Well, I don't want to rain on the parade, but I recently  had  to
do  the aynch download routine for the same general situation:  a
customer needed to read source from an AT&T  3B/300  tape  drive,
and  put  it  on a TOWER 32/600.  I ended up having an async UUCP
cable built and transferred the data  using  ol'  reliable  UUCP.
Yes,  it  was a pain, but it did work, cost almost nothing except
some time, and left me in a fairly good humour.

Why don't the drives talk?  I belive it is more with the Firmware
on  the drives:  I never could get AT&T to write TOWER tapes, nor
vice-versa.
					--sam
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