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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Anybody have comments on Wangtek 60 Mb tape backup?
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Date: 3 Feb 91 22:16:19 GMT
References: <36584@netnews.upenn.edu>
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In article <36584@netnews.upenn.edu> mfontana@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Mark A Fontana) writes:

|     I'm considering buying a Wangtek 60 Mb tape backup system from NSI
| Computer Products, located in Torrance, CA.  The model # of the drive
| is 50990-N24.  It is an internal drive with its own controller, and it uses
| DC600A tapes.  According to the sales rep, the transfer rate is 6.5 Mb/min
| and it uses the QIC-60 format.  NSI's price is currently $348, and they
| reportedly buy them from Wangtek "by the thousands."

  I've used these for years in Xenix and UNIX systems and Sun-3
workstations. They normally run QIC-24 or QIC-11, not QIC-60. I'm not
even sure that's the right standard, some of the QIC numbers are bus
interfaces and the like. You can run these with the Wangtek PC-36 and
Everex EV-811 controllers as QIC-24.

  Good price, I presume the controller is extra at that price?
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