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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!zeos!kgermann
- From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
- Subject: Re: Advice needed on Colorado Tape drive.
- Organization: Zeos International, Ltd.
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 14:58:42 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.145842.10068@zeos.com>
- References: <1992Jul24.213325.13830@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul24.213325.13830@m.cs.uiuc.edu> jwang@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Jane Wang) writes:
- >Hello, I am looking for a reliable yet not expensive tape drive for my
- >Gateway 2000 486/33ISA pc. Right now I have two floppy drives in the system,
- >and the control card can only control two floppy disks. Somebody told me that
- >I can connect a Colorado 120mb internal tape drive onto the floppy cable
- >without an extra controller for it. So I checked the cable. There
- >are two plugs from the cable already plugged into the floppy drives, and
- >there are two unused plugs on the cable. But it seems like that the plugs
- >can only accept pins, not the edge of a printed circuit board. So am I missing
- >something here? Or does the Colorado tape drive also come with pin plug?
- >Do anyone out there have any good or bad experience with Colorado drive?
- >Any advice is deeply appreciated.
- >
- >Tong Gao
- >tgao@cad.cs.uiuc.edu
-
- A CK-38 Tape drive kit from Colorado should clear up the problem.
- Ken
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