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From: john@pyrnj.uucp (John Kurzman)
Newsgroups: misc.forsale,comp.periphs,nj.forsale,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Used 8mm Pertec Drive for Sale
Keywords: 8mm,pertec,scsi,exabyte,megatape
Message-ID: <13946@pyrnj.uucp>
Date: 9 Aug 90 21:40:33 GMT
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Distribution: misc
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp, Woodbridge, NJ
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An 8mm Megatape brand tape Pertec-interface drive may soon be available for 
sale at an attractive discount.

This unit is internally an Exabyte 8mm drive, but has a Pertec
adapter internal to the unit, so looks like a regular 1/2" 9Track
tape drive to your system (but it's a REAL long tape--2 Gigabytes/tape,
for about $18/tape). No special software is needed to make your Pertec
board replace or daisy chain to a regular 9track drive.

Timing tests on a Pyramid have clocked about 200k/second using dd with
a 30K block size.  The unit is ideal for people who don't want to sit
around while they mount 18 120Mb 9track tapes, when you can instead just
insert 1 8mm tape and let your system do the rest.

John Kurzman
(201)750-2626

Any ideas expressed above are my own and not necessarily anyone else's.