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From: reb@quintro.uucp (Roger E. Benz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: SCSI adaptors, floppy drives
Message-ID: <1989Aug14.142109.1781@quintro.uucp>
Date: 14 Aug 89 14:21:09 GMT
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Reply-To: reb@quintro.UUCP (Roger E. Benz)
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In article <8610@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Moshe Braner) writes:
>I'd like to find out what is available in the following
>categories for an Apollo Domain 3500 workstation.
>
>Floppy drive: this is another backup option, and could also serve
>for easy Apollo (and the net) <--> IBM PC/AT file transfer.
>Can one get a 1.2 Meg 5.25" or a 1.44 Meg (or 720K) 3.5" drive?
>Can it read/write MS-DOS format files?  Or only UNIX files?  Both?
>

Apollo has a floppy available that will meet your needs.  It can read
write MS-DOS high dense floppies if you get the hardware or software
PC compatibility products.  It does not read/write low dense floppies
very well.

As for UNIX floppies you can either mount the floppy, use wbak/rbak or tar.

The cost, if you have a hard disk, is about $500 for the floppy.  The PC
software emulator is about $500 and the PC hardware emulator is $2K-$3k.

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