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From: bdale@col.hp.com (Bdale Garbee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: 1/4" SCSI Tape Drives from CSC
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Date: 6 Mar 91 05:41:55 GMT
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> Does it eat standard DC-600 tapes, or something else, or standard and/or
> something else?  Anyone know?  If it can make use of the *big* box of DC600
> tapes I've accumulated over the years...

Just answered my own question.  The flyer from CSC was in the mailbox today.
Looks like a nice tape drive, $219 each in 10 or more quantity.  I think I
can suggest that 4 would be used in my circle if others are interested to
the extent that a quantity buy meets or improves upon the above price... and
unless someone has some other brilliant idea.

The drive uses DC600 tapes for approximately 62meg/tape, or "XL tapes" which
I assume are the thinner/longer tapes for the higher density, and the drive
supposedly ships with one of the denser tapes...

Bdale