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- From: gene_heskett@wvlink.mpl.com (Gene Heskett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Tapestreamer programming docs needed
- Date: 04 Feb 96 02:31:51 +0500
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- APv> Hi there,
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- APv> I recently got a tapestreamer (VERY old model with BIG tapes!),
- APv> an 'Interpreter Tapexchange'. It can be connected to a PC's
- APv> parallel port, and I have the software for it. Problem is, I
- APv> don't work on my PC
- APv> (It just gets dusty...), so nothing to back up there.
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- APv> Since it can be connected via the parallel port, I am thinking
- APv> of using it for my Amiga 1200. Problem is, they did not give me
- APv> software for the Amiga!
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- APv> I opened the tapestreamer, and I think it's just a SCSI-device
- APv> (standard 50-pins SCSI-like connector), with a separate print
- APv> for the SCSI to parallel conversion. Sounds simple enough, but
- APv> now the question:
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- APv> How can I control the device (preferably with parallel.device),
- APv> what commands can be transmitted, how do I send them, etc.
- APv> etc...?
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- APv> Any help is very welcome!
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- APv> Thanks,
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- APv> Matthijs van Aalten,
- APv> e-mail: aaltenm@iclab.ce.philips.nl
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- Unforch Matthijs, you have a hardware problem in the form of that parallel
- convertor. On a pc, the port was never fully bi-directional, so they had to
- feed the data into the port a nibble at a time on the printers status
- lines, which I think are a bit more complex than the Amiga and its fully
- bi-directional port has.
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- The best Idea I'd have would be to toss that adaptor, hook it up to the scsi
- buss with a long 50 pin scsi cable, check the terminations and make them
- correct, and see if its smart enough to accept regular scsi-direct
- commands right from a scsi card plugged into the 1200. Who knows, you might
- get lucky!
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