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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Need help in buying tape drive
Message-ID: <1991Jun15.002949.27374@pegasus.com>
Date: 15 Jun 91 00:29:49 GMT
References: <1991Jun13.040413.22947@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <1991Jun13.122932.18138@zztop.rn.com>
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>>a DC6150 tape. It is formatted at 150 megs. I need to know of the
>>cheapest tape drive that I can get to read it. Yes I have a Computer
>>Shopper but I don't know which one to get. Dell wants $799 for theirs,
>>but I know that I can do better than that. Any advice or specific ads
>>will be greatly appreciated.
>
>799 isn't bad - the drive we use on our boxes are Archives 2150S

There was a discussion about tape drives in this group some months back.
I seem to recall some indication that the Wangtek drives were preferable.

They supposedly have better heads and handle the DC6250 (250 meg) tapes
more reliably.


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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com