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From: herber@bgsuvax.UUCP (Steve Herber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: SI 8-mm on HSC VAX Cluster - dual drive ok?
Keywords: SI Digital Review
Message-ID: <6755@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 90 14:50:35 GMT
References: <1990Dec19.213412.24576@csus.edu>
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
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From article <1990Dec19.213412.24576@csus.edu>, by cooling@cssmtf.ccs.csus.edu (Mike Cooling):
> Before buying HSC equipment from SI, check out the front page article in
> the December 17 issue of Digital Review. Basically due to the court battle
> between DEC and SI over HSC/SDI&STI patents, SI has settled out of court and
> agreed to "...the gradual elimination of its current HSC-compatable
> subsystems, known as the C Series...".
> 
> I think purchasing SI HSC disk or tape equipment at this time would be risky 
> at best!

I just talked to my SI salesman and I still am not clear what is going on.
I was assured that the level of support for my existing C series drives
wouldn't drop but when I asked about future sales of existing C series
drives, he said that he didn't know and that thing would change over
the next couple of years.

I found a conflict in the DR article when they said that SI would stop
making C series drives for the HSC but it was OK to market RA compatible
drives to run off the VAXBI.  Whats the difference?  I have some SI drives
I run off a VAXBI/KDB50 now and I view then as RA compatible.

Coincidentally, I just got an offer from my SI guy to swap out old disks
for new and a VERY GOOD price.  Is this the start of the fire sale?

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