SAGE@LL.ARPA (03/16/88)
For some reason our mailer decided to swallow the first character on each line of my outgoing messages yesterday. Here is a second attempt to send the second of those messages. o Paul Birkel: have never faced this question on my SB180 because I have at least ne 48-tpi and one 96-tpi drive, and I have never tried to use the 6-tpi drive with 48-tpi formats. I know that the Ampro computer has pecial software for 'double tracking' on 96-tpi drives to handle, in a ashion, the 48-tpi formats, but I am not sure that the SB180 is upposed to do that. he SB180, especially with the XBIOS enhanced operating system and erhaps an ETS180IO+ add on board, is a very nice machine. I would ecommend that you consider buying it and a 48-tpi drive. I don't know hat the asking price is in your case. I paid $25 for mine (used) omplete with a box and power supply. Then I paid $25 more for the fficial software. Of course, I got no drives in that package. The elling parties had bought the machine and the software at auction as art of larger lots, and neither party had any interest in the SB180.