killer@aero.org (Karl G. Kowalski) (05/14/91)
Hi! Thought I'd post this to the net, 'cuz you guys all seem to know this stuff. Here goes. The department which I am a part of in this Corporation wishes to purchase a tape backup system for the desktop computers we've got. Unfortunately, most of these are ibms (otherwise it'd be a piece of cake) and only a couple are (thank God) macintoshen. Whilst at school, we sort of had a similar problem and one of the students in our lab found a company that made a system that could handle both Macs and IBMs (thanks Rob). Trouble is, I don't remember what the company was, nor any of the details of the system (4mm, 8mm, SCSI, serial, parallel, required software, price, etc.; all the useful information). The name PCPC peripherals or some variation thereof comes to mind, but I could be way off base. Any help/info would be greatly appreciated; I would hate to have to explain to my superiors (who look on Macs as inconvenient pieces of hardware that can't seem to get along with the rest of the world and cost way too damn much) that there isn't a device that'll do both - they'd probably just get one for the PCs, medieval dark ages machines that they are. Ideally, the device would take data from a PC through the parallel port and from the Mac through the SCSI port - we'd prefer to be able to connect to either machine with existing ports/hardware; buying a card that has to be placed into the particular machine to be backed up is not a convenient way of doing this. Like I said, any help would be greatly appreciated. I have looked through PCWeek and MacWeek and Computer Shopper, but haven't found one company (ok, I haven't researched them *all*) that claims to do both. Thanks. Of course, this question would be moot if they'd just pay *me* to do it; it'd take awhile, granted, but I'd have fun and more enjoyment than what they *do* pay me for. Prolly be cheaper too. Cheers, Karl G Kowalski killer@aerospace.aero.org Your own judgment on replying; email to above is fine, if you feel the net wants to know, by all means, tell 'em. If this is a FAQ, fine, be that way. I still want to know, though. And I ain't seen anything recently about it, so there. No, this ain't a sig. And my company doesn't have a clue what I'm saying, or where, and wouldn't understand even if I told them.