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From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000 and Syquest 44mb
Keywords: A3000 A2090 SCSI
Message-ID: <7648@gollum.twg.com>
Date: 23 Jul 90 02:57:54 GMT
References: <2886@isc-br.ISC-BR.COM> <5118@ethz.UUCP> <13251@cbmvax.commodore.com> <12253@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: david@twg.com (David S. Herron)
Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA
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In article <12253@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> aok@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (B Jacobs) writes:
>on the A3000.  Hard Drives International is offering the Syquest
>drive external (power supply, the whole shebang) for $599!  I 
>believe that this includes 1 cartridge, but I'm not sure.  Anyway, 
>this would be ideal for those of us who do lots of storage intensives
>like digitizing, desktop publishing, etc.

"Yes, but..."

The disks cost ~$75 apiece which works out to a bit less than $2/meg.

Tapes cost ~$.50/meg

Yes it's more convenient to have the files on a disk..
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