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From: steve@prd.co.uk (Steve Blinkhorn)
Subject: driver for Overland 1/2" 9-track tape wanted
Organization: Psychometric Research & Development Ltd
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1993 14:15:52 GMT
Message-ID: <CC9oyH.179@prd.co.uk>
Summary: driver wanted for Overland mag tape unit
Keywords: driver magtape Overland
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I'm becoming persuaded that maybe BSDI is the way I should be moving
for an upcoming hardware/software upgrade.   Can anybody point me in
the direction of a compatible driver for the Overland TX-8 Tape
Coupler for the AT bus?   I know 1/2" tape is not exactly SOTA, but we
found earlier this year that it was the only format we could use with
one customer.

There appears to be enough information in the documentation I have to
write one, but doing that and getting my head back into BSD-style
systems at the same time might just cause a few missed interrupts in
the parietal lobes.

I suspect this request may not be of very widespread interest, so do
email rather than post.....

-- 
Steve Blinkhorn <steve@prd.co.uk>