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On 02-Oct-02 at 23:28 Eric Smith wrote:
 Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
 >Does anyone have info on this beastie?
I'm trying to convince it to be
> nice to me and lock itself to 1600bpi, but it doesn't wanna play... :( 
Bruce Lane wrote:
  I had an 88170 at one time. 
An 88780, probably. 
        Right you are. Brain fart there...
   Bear in mind
that you'll need some fairly specialized (and expensive --
 in the $300 region) software if you want to use that drive on any sort
 of PC. 
Someone should have warned me about that before I started using one with
no special software whatsoever.  :-) 
 
        Let me rephrase that. On any sort of PC with a Windoze operating system. ;-)
        Yes, any *nix should be able to handle them just fine. Sorry, I should have made
that clearer.
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