3rd Party Tape Drive & Memory for DS5000/240

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From: Daniel D Lee
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 22:03

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Our group recently bought a DECstation 5000/Model 240 and I'm currently
shopping around for some more 8MB RAM modules and a backup storage device for
its 1GB RZ57.  At the moment, I'm looking at a 4mm DAT device called
Archive Python and have no clue as to where to start with 3rd party memory
distributors.  I'm trying to keep the price for all this at around $2K
and since the DEC quoted prices for their items still seemed relatively
high even with their educational discount, I'm attempting to figure out
which cheap 3rd party devices are reliable and fully compatible, i.e.
are device drivers available, etc.
If anyone has had any previous experience with this, I'd appreciate it
if he or she could e-mail me (ddlee@athena.mit.edu).  Any info would help.
Thanks a lot.

-Dan

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