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Article #302Re: A standalone 1/4-inch SCSI tape drive?
From: Richard Seymour
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1989 20:53
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1989 20:53
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In article <RSM.89Sep18200600@amethyst.math.arizona.edu> rsm@math.arizona.edu (Robert S. Maier) writes: >I'm looking for a standalone 1/4-inch tape drive with a SCSI >interface. I'm buying a Data General workstation with a 50-pin SCSI One of our people bought an "Archive Corp". (sold for use with IBM PC's) so its input connector is a "QIC-02 format". It usually comes with an IBM AT interface card. But you throw that away and buy from Emulex an MT-02 interface card. That will interface a QIC-02 to a SCSI system. Thewhole mess cost less than $1000. (all of this poop was painfully extracted from someone who bought one -- he bought his by mail order from CompuSave (they advertise ibn byte) -- (the drive, that is) the controller came from an electronics supplier (like Hamilton Avnet, or Almac, or Arrow....) i apologize for the disjointed nature of the reply, but this all happened three years ago, and he was trying to remember things with no warning... -- dick seymour@uwaphast
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!ogccse!blake!seymour From: seymour@blake.acs.washington.edu (Richard Seymour) Newsgroups: comp.periphs Subject: Re: A standalone 1/4-inch SCSI tape drive? Message-ID: <3686@blake.acs.washington.edu> Date: 19 Sep 89 20:53:15 GMT References: <RSM.89Sep18200600@amethyst.math.arizona.edu> Reply-To: seymour@blake.acs.washington.edu (Richard Seymour) Distribution: na Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 23