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lgl@cac.washington.edu (Laurence Lundblade) writes:

>There's a rumor, according to Digital Review, that DEC 4mm tape
>drives don't work very well, if at all, and that DEC is giving VAX
>4000 customers 8mm drives instead of 4mm drives. We've had one on order 
>from DEC for a while now and are wondering when and what we might get.
>Thanks for your comments.


>Laurence Lundblade                       206-543-5617
>  lgl@cac.washington.edu
>     Networks and Distributed Computing, U of Washington, Seattle

This is third hand, but one local group was *supposed* to have theirs
back in May, and were recently promised delivery of the DEC 4mm by the
middle of August.  Well, similar to your finding, I have heard that it
may now be *NOVEMBER*!!!  I heard one user comment that come the middle
of the month, something (4 or 8mm) had best better be on a truck headed
their way!  :-)  They also had a bad experience with Inbound SCSI 
harddisk drives not talking DEC SCSI (this was on a DecStation 3100)
and I think another 3rd party 4mm SCSI drive as well.  

That is about all I have heard.

Mark.