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On 02-Oct-02 at 23:28 Eric Smith wrote:
>Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
>>>Does anyone have info on this beastie? I'm trying to convince it to be
>>> nice to me and lock itself to 1600bpi, but it doesn't wanna play... :(
>
>Bruce Lane wrote:
>> I had an 88170 at one time.
>
>An 88780, probably.
Right you are. Brain fart there...
>> Bear in mind that you'll need some fairly specialized (and expensive --
>> in the $300 region) software if you want to use that drive on any sort
>> of PC.
>
>Someone should have warned me about that before I started using one with
>no special software whatsoever. :-)
Let me rephrase that. On any sort of PC with a Windoze operating system. ;-)
Yes, any *nix should be able to handle them just fine. Sorry, I should have made that clearer.
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Received on Tue Oct 08 2002 - 20:18:12 BST