Re: ProFile drive

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <1997Aug16.121320.1397@lafn.org>,
James Poore <aw133@lafn.org> wrote:
>>    The Profile controller card is a rather rare beast; it's one of
>>the very few bidirectional parallel interface cards for the Apple
>>II. These cards appear to be scarcer than the actual drives nowadays,
>>as judging by your and many other posts.

>Jus outta curiosity, would these controller cards serve any purpose in 
>perhaps adding a parallel-port tape-backup unit in the II's?

   Quite probably this would work, but you could spend more time
finding one of these Profile cards than implementing such code. Far
more people have access to a SCSI card, where the backup options are
MUCH greater and much easier to program.

Nathan Mates
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