HP modern peripherals (was RE: HP tape drive novel repair

[Jay West]

Mike wrote...
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Someone needs to come up with the hardware equivalent of HPDrive so we don't
need to dedicate an entire Windoze system just to emulate a drive.
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To which I replied...
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I am not 100% positive, but I think this was already done [snip]
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Here is the magic:
http://newton.freehostia.com/hp/

Note that this implementation uses a standard off the shelf dup reg board.
That choice has major pluses, but the downside means you have to write a
driver for any OS you want to use it with (RTE, HP2K, etc.). Maybe it's a
starting point anyways....

J