Meeting or no meeting tonight? Re: [Tfug] Pass-through cable?

A.Chris Hilton tfug@tfug.org
Sun Dec 1 13:29:01 2002


The always up-to-date, spot on reliable tfug website says there's a
meeting tonight....and the other method of anunciating things like
meeting cancelations and such (this very list) has been earily silent on
the matter.

-C-

 On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 13:05:35 -0700 (MST)
Harry McGregor <micros@azstarnet.com> wrote:

> Is there a meeting tonight?  I was under the impression that with John
> Morrow out of town, the meeting was canceled.
> 
> 			Harry
> 
> On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, A.Chris Hilton wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 14:04:54 -0700 (MST)
> > "Scott Denlinger" <sbd@dakotacom.net> wrote:
> >
> > > I moved my hard drives and other peripherals onto a new system
> > > recently. My new system board doesn't have any ISA slots--only
> > > PCI. There are certainly advantages to this, but now I can't run
> > > my QIC tape backup drive off the dedicated controller card which
> > > came with it, since it's an ISA card. A tech at SWS told me I need
> > > a"pass-through" cable to connect the QIC drive to the same cable
> > > my floppy drive is on, so I can use both devices through my system
> > > board floppy controller. Does anybody know where I can get one of
> > > these? The tech said that HP used to make one, but he hasn't seen
> > > one "in the wild" since about 1996. Does anybody here in town have
> > > one they can part with?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Scott Denlinger
> > > sbd@dakotacom.net
> >
> > I have a couple of cables like this.  I'm not sure they'll work with
> > your specific tape drive, but your welcome to them if they do. I'll
> > bring them to the meeting tonight.
> >
> > -C-
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