Reliable 3.5" DSHD diskettes

[Joe R.]

At 09:00 PM 11/8/05 +0000, you wrote:
>> >(Oh and don't tell me to use CD-Rs or DVDs, or whatever. I've yet to find 
>> >such devives with an HPIL interface (for example)).
>> 
>>    Hmmm. I have a couple of HP-IB MO drives and a HP-IL to HP-IB converter.
>> I wonder???
>
>Well, the software is going to be a big problem. Most calculators are not 
>going to recognise a device on the wrong side of an 82169 converter as a 
>mass storage device. And said device is not going to talk the Modified 
>Filbert Protocol that the calculator is expecting anyway.

   Bummer! I'd been thinking for years about trying that. Oh well it's a
good thing that I have plenty of 9114 and HP-IL cassette drives. Now if I
could just find a GOOD source of those darned tapes!

      Joe

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>-tony
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