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Re: ======FORSALE: SyQuest 44MB external SCSI drive + 1 cartridge=====

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From: Scott DIxon
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 00:00
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Michael--Schneider wrote:
> 
> In article <34062a0e.13635278@news.calweb.com>, address@bottom.page wrote:
> 
> > On 29 Aug 1997 01:26:54 GMT, ai@shell. (ai) wrote:
> >
> > >Hello,
> > >
> > >I have a SyQuest 44MB external drive for sale along with
> > >one 44MB SyQuest cartridge.
> > >
> > >1. the drive is an external SCSI drive
> > >2. the enclosure is by PowerUser
> > >3. enclosure uses 2 Centronics SCSI connectors
> > >4. the drive is in A-1 condition
> > >5. I'm selling because I use optical disks now
> > >6. the cartridge alone sells for around $32 mail order
> > >
> > >Price:  Best offer over: $75 + shipping
> >
> >
> > You should hope for best price over $25.  Really...the 44 is dead and burried.
> > Even the 88 is comatose.  syquest 200 drives are about $125 and are downward
> > compatable.  Why would anyone buy a 44?
> 
>    Because they can take out the drive mech and throw it away, and use the
> *case* to house a CD-Rom drive or similar ilk. Priced a new one of those?
> 
>    Now go away.  Nobody likes the Price Police.
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Any Jew who sees "Schindler's List" and doesn't come away wanting every
> Jew in the U.S. to own an assault rifle has something very wrong with him.
> 
>    -- Guy Norman LaFrance

I appreciate the vigilance of the "Price Police". They serve to suppress
the 
truely stupid offers. I also think you had a good point about a
different
use for the external "drive".

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Scott Dixon          email: scott@interhdl.com

interHDL Inc.
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From: Scott DIxon <scott@interhdl.com>
Subject: Re: ======FORSALE: SyQuest 44MB external SCSI drive + 1 cartridge=====
Date: 1997/08/29
Message-ID: <340769C1.71D1@interhdl.com>
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