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From: ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: SyQuest 44MB removable in PC-compatible
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.191330.85@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 15 Jan 91 19:13:30 GMT
References: <4853@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>
Organization: Oklahoma State University
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From article <4853@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>, by chuck@umbc5.umbc.edu (Chuck Rickard; ACS (UGRAD)):
> In an article parke@star.enet.dec.com (Bill Parke) writes:
> 
>>I just ordered a SyQuest with AllWays controller from HDI for $499.
>>This includes a cartridge (standard issue if you buy the SyQuest unless
>>the dealer is removing them).
> 
> All Syquest drives are shipped WITHOUT cartridges!  In fact, when they first
> came out, the dealers had a hard enough time getting cartridges for the units
> they were selling.  Everyone was ordering extras and Syquest couldn't keep
> up with the demand.

Yes, the cartridge and base unit does comes in separate boxes, but HDI
does sell a package with base unit and 1 cartridge.  I got it a few months
ago.