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- From: ferdie@coyote.datalog.com (fred jarvis)
- Subject: Re: Parallel To SCSI Interface For PC
- Message-ID: <871ZwB1w165w@coyote.datalog.com>
- Sender: bbs@coyote.datalog.com (Waffle System)
- Organization: Datalog Consulting, Tucson, AZ
- References: <C0Du59.9xA@wang.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 08:58:54 GMT
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- > >In article <1993Jan2.003109.25202@kd4dts.dixie.com> jcw@kd4dts.dixie.com (Jo
- > >=Does anyone out here in netland know of a device that would let me connect
- > >=my laptop (with no expansion slots, but with a parallel port) to the SCSI
- > >=chain on my '486 so that I can treat the 120mb drive on the laptop as a
- > >=disk drive on the '486?
- > >=
- > >=What I want to accomplish is being able to backup the laptop drive to the
- > >=tape system on my '486. It would also be useful for installing software
- > >=from the CD ROM drive on the '486 onto the laptop.
-
- Why not go the other way? There are programs to allow the drive of one
- computer (the laptop in this case) to be accessed as just another drive
- of the other computer (the 486) through the parallel port. One such is
- Brooklyn Bridge, published by 5th Generation Systems, which I've been
- using for several months.
-
- Fred Jarvis ferdie@coyote.datalog.com
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