#Tape Drive Software
20-Jul-94 02:55:36
Sb: #41896-#Tape Drive Software
Fm: Christopher Laprise 70431,2172
To: gary ludwick 72155,316
"Someone wanted to use their Colorado tape backup unit on the Amiga; a
second person replied that the Amiga's parallel port didn't support that
kind of stuff; you replied that it supported the Epson scanner; and I
(tongue in cheek), was just saying it'll support anything if you got the
driver….which, with few exceptions, we don't. Whewwwww!"
Actually, Gary, I was primarily referring to software driver support.
However, at a bandwidth of about 50K/sec max throughput, I doubt that the
Amiga parallel port could effectively keep up with a typical tape backup.
IBM compatibles have been using parallel port hardware that is much faster
than the Amiga's for many years now.
-Chris