Iomega floppy tape drives + software

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun Jun 15 09:42:01 2003

hi all,

I stumbled across a load of old QIC 80 tapes of mine today and got curious as
to what might be on some of them. I managed to dig out the relevant tape drive
from storage (it's an Iomega drive - 3.5" bay sized - with a floppy interface;
slow as hell from what I remember!)

I haven't used this thing for years but plugged it into a machine running NT4.0
- amazingly NT detected it and has installed low-level drivers for it, so I'm
hopeful that the drive will still work. Of course I have no software for NT
that'll read the format on the tapes...

Problem - can't find the relevant DOS software either. I probably chucked the
floppies a few years back knowing me :-)

I do remember way back (actually would have been 1993 or so - just on topic for
the list!) using another vendor's software under DOS though. Software was for
the Jumbo series or drives that were around at the same time; different vendor
but it worked with the Iomega drive too. Not that I can find a floppy with that
on either :-)

Anyone got one of these drives or a pointer to the software on the 'net? No
problem booting the machine under DOS to access the tape drive - I doubt
there's any (free) NT software around that'll read the format on those tapes.
That's assuming the information on them hasn't vanished anyway of course...

cheers

Jules

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