CompuServe Drives: Custom firmware?

[Cory Smelosky]

On Mon, 20 Apr 2015, Glen Slick wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Rich Alderson
> <RichA at livingcomputermuseum.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Happen to have recommendations for an converter? I don't have a massive
>>> surplus of HVD drives so I'll need 1 of those as well.
>>
>> I like the Paralan products (we used them in the XKL Toad-1 to connect a DAT
>> drive--later a DLT--to the HVD bus), but they run $300-$500 each new.  I don't
>> know whether there is a used market.
>
> Would DEC DWZZB-AA be suitable for this application?
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/171056347113
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/390293227921
>
> ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/openstorage/KDWZZBUG.PDF
>

Manual says it allows a length of 25m ... so I would reasonably say it's 
HVD...so...probably.

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