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Title: 2500ux Tape Drive
Post by: Ioncannon on July 04, 2010, 01:32:05 AM

I have seen pictures of the 2500UX, but I can't seem to find what the tape drive was that it came with. Was it the Archive Viper? Or an internal A3070? Any pictures of what it looked like?

Title: Re: 2500ux Tape Drive
Post by: Matt_H on July 04, 2010, 04:06:54 AM

From what I've read, the 3070 is an Archive Viper (in most cases). Never seen a stock 2500UX, so I don't know what it shipped with.

Title: Re: 2500ux Tape Drive
Post by: Tahoe on July 04, 2010, 11:48:57 AM

Quote from: Matt_H;568859

From what I've read, the 3070 is an Archive Viper (in most cases). Never seen a stock 2500UX, so I don't know what it shipped with.

No, the A3070 is most commonly found with Caliper drives (they have the closing front door, while Archive Vipers have an eject lever on the left side)

My A2500UX came with a Wangtek 5150, pictured here:

Title: Re: 2500ux Tape Drive
Post by: Ral-Clan on July 04, 2010, 12:43:47 PM

What does that red button do?

Title: Re: 2500ux Tape Drive
Post by: Tahoe on July 04, 2010, 01:08:24 PM

The red button was retro fitted, it was connected to the J304 jumper on the A2630 accelerator card: OS: ON - UNIX, OFF - AmigaOS