NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/comp/sys/ibm/pc/hardware/20439

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From: [e-mail] (Glen Midkiff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Advice needed on Colorado Tape drive.
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 27 Jul 92 12:11:16 GMT
References: <[e-mail]$
Organization: Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, Columbus
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From article <[e-mail]$, by [e-mail] (Ken Germann):
$ In article <[e-mail]$ [e-mail] (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.
$
$ A CK-38 Tape drive kit from Colorado should clear up the problem.

 The Colorado Jumbo 120 and 250 now comes with the cable you need at
 no extra cost.  The cable runs from the tape to the floppy controller
 and has a connector that your floppy cable plugs into.
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 |Glen Midkiff   ([e-mail])                                 |
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