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- From: mmaston@netcom.com (Michael Maston)
- Subject: Re: Advice needed on Colorado Tape drive.
- Message-ID: <tcmm7sg.mmaston@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 05:02:54 GMT
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- References: <1992Jul24.213325.13830@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <t+jm74f.mmaston@netcom.com> <1682FD27A.DIXONW@arizvm1.ccit.arizona.edu>
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- In article <1682FD27A.DIXONW@arizvm1.ccit.arizona.edu> DIXONW@arizvm1.ccit.arizona.edu (Bill Dixon) writes:
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- > I, too, am considering purchase of a tape drive and had wondered how
- >the floppy connections worked. Thanks for clearing this up. One further
- >question, though: does this procedure degrade the performance of the
- >floppy drives in any noticeable way?
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- Yes, not very clear even to myself who has been using/programming PC's for
- a LONG time. I recommended that they point this info out on the package
- somewhere on my registration card. Whether they actually do it...
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- Anyway, as to your other question, while I don't have much call to use the
- floppies very much, I have noticed no degradation in performance or
- reliability of the floppy drives since the tape drive install.
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- Michael Maston
- GTE Government Systems
- Mt. View, CA 94043
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