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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!walter!att!cbfsb!cbnewsb.cb.att.com!feg
  3. From: feg@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (forrest.e.gehrke)
  4. Subject: Re: Advice needed on Colorado Tape drive.
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul27.120825.3095@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
  6. Sender: news@cbfsb.cb.att.com
  7. Organization: AT&T
  8. References: <1992Jul24.213325.13830@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <t+jm74f.mmaston@netcom.com> <1682FD27A.DIXONW@arizvm1.ccit.arizona.edu>
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  10. Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 12:08:25 GMT
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  13. In article <1682FD27A.DIXONW@arizvm1.ccit.arizona.edu> DIXONW@arizvm1.ccit.arizona.edu (Bill Dixon) writes:
  14. > 
  15. >    I, too, am considering purchase of a tape drive and had wondered how
  16. >the floppy connections worked. Thanks for clearing this up. One further
  17. >question, though: does this procedure degrade the performance of the
  18. >floppy drives in any noticeable way?
  19. >- - - -
  20.  
  21. Only if you attempt to tape a floppy diskette; then its slower than
  22. taping a hard drive.  But why would anyone want to do this?
  23.  
  24. Forrest Gehrke feg@dodger.att.com
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