Re: Why no third party solutions?

[Bruce Reed <bruce@objy.com>]

> There are a number of parallel port hard drives for a reasonable
> price.  You could always get a SCSI PCMCIA card and then any SCSI
> drive could be your bud.  And of course, there is the Colorado
> Trakker and some other parallel port tape drives.  You should have
> any problems as long as you're sticking with DOS/Win...

One warning here is if you want to use SCSI tape drives you better
make sure the PCMCIA SCSI card you purchase comes with it's own backup 
software. Most of the SCSI backup products are coded with specific SCSI 
drivers in mind and most likely won't support your PCMCIA card. I was 
hoping to use Norton Backup with my new Adaptec SLIM-SCSI and an Exabyte 
tape drive and discovered that it only supports well-known ISA and LB SCSI 
cards. I'm stuck with the Trantor's TapeMate software supplied with
the SlimSCSI.

--Bruce