Unusual hardware

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I’ve never heard of a SCSI floppy drive.

Well, at work we have a server (A dell, not sure about the model) and it only has a SCSI interface; Harddisk, Floppy, CD-ROM and a tapestreamer... It's quite old and is only used to support some user directories (store files)

Must admit I never seen a SCSI tapedrive tho  ;-), I guess you have better luck finding drivers for MS-DOS 4 or something like that.... Some kind of backup drive maybe..

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I have learned that it could only back up 150 to 160 megabytes of data, depending on which web page one reads.

150 Mb ? Considering the technology that's not so bad.. Seems like it was from the era that a 20Mb HD was huge ?

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Actually, I'd been hoping to find a hack on Aminet of wherever that sould allow it to read audio data into the miggy, to be spooled to hard drive, of converted to sound files. Another use would be to transfer old Vic-20 and C64 programs from tape to hard drive, for emulators to use.

If it is a mac drive, why not try to emulate a mac and find mac drivers for it ?

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Hmm.. Well, this may of interest,  or this one.. Browse groups.google.com maybe you get lucky ?

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Tapes are always huge... my friend's got a Sony tape drive and its capacity per tape is like 200GB's or so... crazy huh?

Well, yes, but those tapes were designed for that purpose.. But;

Quixote: it seems to accept standard audio cassettes, or other cassettes of the same size and shape.

considering how big a common 8bit game on tape was, 150+Mb is a big leap.