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From: david@bdt.com (David Beckemeyer)
Newsgroups: ba.market.computers,misc.forsale.computers,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: 9-track tape drive w/PC controller
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.205924.18390@bdt.com>
Date: 21 Jun 91 20:59:24 GMT
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Organization: Beckemeyer Development Tools, Oakland CA
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I have a Qualstar 9-track tape drive which I might be interested
in selling.  The thing is that I don't know how much it's worth.
When I bought it four years ago, it cost me $3,500.

It is a Qualstar Model 1052 desktop tape drive.  When I looked
at all the various low-end 9-track tape drives at the time, it
was one of the nicest that I'd seen.  I bought it from a company
called Overland Data with an IBM PC controller card.  The drive
is a regular 9-track interface and would work in any standard
9-track sub-system.  Overland Data still exists and offers
tech. support and such for the drive and controller.  The drive
handles full-size 9-track tapes at 1600 and 3200 bpi.

So how much is this thing worth?   Anybody want to buy it?
It works fine.  I'm only selling it because I really seldom
ever need to transfer tapes to and from other systems anymore,
which is what I bought it for (and used for).

If you want to use it in a PC, the conreoller comes with Unix
drivers and DOS programs for backup and reading foreign tapes.
-- 
David Beckemeyer (david@bdt.COM)	| "Yea I've got medicine..." as the 
Beckemeyer Development Tools		| cookie cocks a his Colt, "and if
P.O. Box 21575, Oakland, CA 94620	| you don't keep your mouth shut, I'm
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