Seeing the mention of the Shugart QD floppy drive brought to
mind an Altos 586T that I used to have that used this drive, along
with a Wangtek 60MB streaming tape drive. This was an 8086 based
server released around 1983 that ran XENIX and used a number of Z80's
to handle the I/O on both the serial ports and disk subsystem. I no
longer have the machine itself as it was horribly corroded by the
time I got it, though I do have a replacement Wangtek tape drive and
a copy of the XENIX floppy disks for it, as well as two 3M DC300XL/P
data cartridges that supposedly contain a full system backup. Short
of finding another 586T, is there any way of at least checking the
data integrity of these tapes?
thanks and take care
Jeff
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Received on Sun Oct 29 2000 - 18:05:44 GMT