Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!mcdphx!mcdchg!ddsw1!tronsbox!tron1 From: tron1@tronsbox.UUCP (HIM) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Should I buy a cheap SCSI tape drive? Message-ID: <25ba90ef:4085.3comp.sys.amiga;1@tronsbox.UUCP> Date: 22 Jan 90 07:00:29 GMT References: <5841@netcom.UUCP> <8424@portia.Stanford.EDU> Lines: 26 >Item: 4085 by *Masked* at netcom.UUCP >Author: [Jonathan Hue] > Subj: Should I buy a cheap SCSI tape drive? > Keyw: > Date: Sat Jan 20 1990 22:20 > Lines: 13 > > >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 ridiculous ly >slow, something like 22K/sec, but at $129 they look pretty good. I think >Apple sells these drives as Mac peripherals. Hmm.. what is the phone number of this place? **************************************************************************** Everything I say is Copr. 1990, except the stuff I stole from someone else and the stuff I don't want responsibility for. Kenneth J. Jamieson: Xanadu Enterprises Inc. "Professional Amiga Software" UUCP: tron1@tronsbox.UUCP BEST PATH ---> uunet!tronsbox!tron1 Sysop, Romantic Encounters BBS - (201)759-8450 / (201)759-8568 ****************************************************************************