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    From Vir Campestris@21:1/5 to mail-veil@btinternet.com on Thu Sep 29 21:30:45 2016
    On 27/09/2016 17:02, mail-veil@btinternet.com wrote:
    Anyone here please know of an interface design that will enable
    Archive 2150L SCSI tape drives to be used instead of 2150S on a system
    with QIC-02 hardware interface?

    That takes me back a _long_ way...

    It looks as if the answer is no. But the odd thing is that 2150L is the
    QIC-02 variant, and the 2150S is the SCSI version. Are you sure of what
    you have? We only ever used SCSI, but that was rather a long time ago...

    Andy

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  • From mail-veil@btinternet.com@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 27 17:02:50 2016
    Anyone here please know of an interface design that will enable
    Archive 2150L SCSI tape drives to be used instead of 2150S on a system
    with QIC-02 hardware interface?

    We are using QIC-24 format tapes with an MS221 tape controller in our
    Ferranti Argus 700 system.

    Thanks
    Mike
    https://bmpg.wordpress.com/

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  • From mail-veil@btinternet.com@21:1/5 to vir.campestris@invalid.invalid on Fri Sep 30 20:15:15 2016
    On Thu, 29 Sep 2016 21:30:45 +0100, Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    On 27/09/2016 17:02, mail-veil@btinternet.com wrote:
    Anyone here please know of an interface design that will enable
    Archive 2150L SCSI tape drives to be used instead of 2150S on a system
    with QIC-02 hardware interface?

    That takes me back a _long_ way...

    It looks as if the answer is no. But the odd thing is that 2150L is the >QIC-02 variant, and the 2150S is the SCSI version. Are you sure of what
    you have? We only ever used SCSI, but that was rather a long time ago...

    Andy

    Hi Andy, yes our Ferranti Argus 700 computer has QIC-02 interface and
    the 2150L tape drive but these are becoming very difficult and
    expensive to support. For some reason the 2150S is a much more
    reasonable proposition and have a few in readiness of finding a SCSI
    conversion to QIC-02.

    An aside, as you probably know the rubber capstan material can go
    beyond sticky and become almost liquid; our quick solution is some
    rubber tubing cut to length, it is a perfect fit over the metal
    capstan and produces exactly the right diameter!

    Mike
    www.BMPG.org.uk

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