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From: hue@netcom.UUCP (Jonathan Hue)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Should I buy a cheap SCSI tape drive?
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Date: 20 Jan 90 09:20:54 GMT
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I picked up a free computer magazine here called "Microtimes" and a place
called HSC Electronic Suppy has 3M MCD 403 SCSI tape drives for $129.
They are new and in their original boxes.  They take DC2000 cartridges
and hold 40MB.  If these are the drives I'm thinking of, they are ridiculously
slow, something like 22K/sec, but at $129 they look pretty good.  I think
Apple sells these drives as  Mac peripherals.

Anyway, is it worth buying one of these to use with my A590?  Will Commodore
support a generic SCSI tape drive soon?  Is it possible for me to write
a program that talks to scsi.device to write to the tape drive?

-Jonathan (bargain stuff hunter)