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- From: eaj@acpub.duke.edu (Edward A. Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Backup Utility Supports CMS Jumbo
- Message-ID: <7976@news.duke.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 00:41:17 GMT
- References: <1992Dec9.152500.4220@wvnvms.wvnet.edu> <BmOKrACABh107h@billapc.UUCP> <1992Dec13.215522.4654@spcvxb.spc.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec13.215522.4654@spcvxb.spc.edu> benezra_a@spcvxb.spc.edu writes:
- >In article <BmOKrACABh107h@billapc.UUCP>, baustin@billapc.UUCP (Bill Austin) writes:
- >> In <1992Dec9.152500.4220@wvnvms.wvnet.edu> roman@wvnvms.wvnet.edu writes:
- >>>In the latest version of "OS/2 Monthly," (issue #6) which arrived today,
- >>>there is an add for BackMaster, an OS/2 2.0 32-bit PM-based backup
- >>>utility. The ad states that BackMaster supports CMS Jumbo tape drives!
- >>>In addition, it supports FAT, HPFS, long filenames and extended attributes.
- >>>It backs up and restores to floppies and QIC-40/80 tape drives.
- >>
- >>>There's more, but I'm not going to quote the whole ad. List price is
- >>>$79.95, but it's on sale for $49.95 till Christmas.
- >> Has anyone(!) actually ordered and/or tried this product yet?
- >> It SOUNDS (at the pre-Christmas price at least) like a heck of a
- >> deal. (I've seen the other follow up to this about only for floppy
- >> interface CMS.. thats ok.. Thats what I use)
- >>
- >
- >Do you have a phone number for BackMaster?
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- MSR development
- Rt 7 #6409
- Nacogdoches Tx, 75961
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- ph. (409) 564-1862
- bbs (409) 560-597
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- This information I got directly from MSR bbs:
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- Hardware Supported
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- 1.44M, 1.2M, 720K, 360K Floppy Drives.
- QIC-40/80
- Colorado Memory Systems specific hardware.
- AB-10 Adapter Board.
- Y-Cable Drive-B Sharing. ( ONLY CMS )
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- Generic QIC-40/80 tape drives.
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- Hardware Not supported in this release, but is a high priority:
- 2.88 Floppy Drives.
- Colorado Memory systems FC-10, and TC-15 Controllers
- Drive-B Sharing of tape drives and B Floppy Drive by non CMS drives.
- SCSI based tape drives.
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- -Ted-
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- Edward A. Johnson
- Cell Biology
- Duke University Medical Center
- Durham, NC 27710
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