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From: xrtnt@bethe.gsfc.nasa.gov (Nigel Tzeng)
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Subject: Re: Where's Imagine?
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Date: 12 Jul 90 13:47:36 GMT
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In article <24267@estelle.udel.EDU>, new@udel.EDU (Darren New) writes...
^In article <2522@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
^>There's one beastie out there that has >removable cartridges, 
^>But I can't remember the name of the drive. It was pretty nice though. I saw
^>it at our local dealers.
^ 
^It's called a SyQuest drive. It holds 44Meg, it is SCSI, seems fast,
^cartridges can be swapped in <30 seconds, and cost about twice what
^a 40Meg SCSI non-removable drive costs and the cartridges are about
^$70-$100 each.  Your prices may vary, void in Iowa, etc etc etc.
^GVP's controllers automatically do the DiskChange for you when
^you swap cartridges, BTW.

I think you can get 100 meg syquest drives for the Mac (SCSI).  There are also
Bernouli drives that are more robust but also more expensive.  I am tempted to
get one of the 40 meg Syquests since getting more "disk" space will only cost
$100 plus backups become a breeze...a least of your "normal" HD.

^ 
^	       -- Darren

NT

Note:  It's probably obvious but these drives are slower than your typical
       40 meg HD (possibly not the ultra slow Seagate ones ;-).  This will 
       probably affect your playback rate.  I believe that Bernouli drives are
       faster but we never bought any so I have no idea...

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