John McDowell writes


Hi All,

I have run into a problem that I hope I can get some input on. Medicaid
in it's infinite wisdom has only allowed us to submit claims to them on
Magnetic reel. We just received notice that as of 07/01/03 they will no
longer accept these tapes, but they still can not receive transmissions
in any format. They will only accept 3490 tapes. The only thing I can
think of to quickly solve this is to put a 3490 tape drive on a PC (if
possible) and then transfer the file to the PC, and then create the
tape. 

Does anyone have any experience, and input to this plan. As you can tell
I have 4 days to find, and implement a solution. Don't you just love
working with government agencies. Thanks for any input.
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You may be able to put a 3480/3490 drive on your 3000.  HP has supported
the 3480 drive on the 900 series machines (not A & N class) through 6.5.
It may also work on 7.0 and 7.5.  A 3490 is supposed to be a 3480 with
data compression.  The drives are made by StorageTek and are obsolete,
though I suspect you can get one if you want.

Mike Berkowitz
Guess? Inc.

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