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> This brings to mind a question I posed a while back that no one seemed to 
> want to deal with. Why are there no drivers for the parallel port tape
> drives? These are some of the least expensive drives around. Is anyone
> working on anything like that? Or is the parallel port so (un)standard
> that you can't match hardware for a stable driver?

Umm its of the

Q: Dear vendor how do I write a driver for your parallel port tape drive
A: Go away

Floppy tape drives are fast, handy and work well so I dont think anyone worried.
There are some good parallel driver examples for lcd displays, led panels,
the connetix quickcam (libqcam) etc.

Alan



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