Blast from the past! When I was a kid we had such a floppy tape device connected to a 386 or 486 computer my parents had. I think it was a Colorado Jumbo 250. I think the actual capacity was 125MB, but the drive or the backup software had some built-in compression, hence why it was marketed as a 250MB drive. Never tried to use it with the Linux ftape driver, though.

It wouldn't surprise me if the drive and the tapes are still somewhere in my parents storage. Could be a fun weekend project to try it out, though I'm not sure I have any computer with a floppy interface anymore. And I don't think there's anything particularly interesting on those tapes either.

In any case, cool project! Kudos to the author!

I've been trying to remember the tape drive we had on our 486 when I was a kid and that's it. Thank you!