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From: ron@celerity.UUCP (Ron McDaniels)
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Subject: Re: Systems Industries Warning
Message-ID: <216@celerity.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Aug-84 14:41:22 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 24 14:41:22 1984
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In a previous incarnation (another employer)  we  used  both  the
Systems  Industry's  tri-density tape drives as well as the Eagle
drive/SI controller combo.  We had several  power  failures  with
our  system and no problems with the tape drive (I could tell you
some horror stories about the other disc drive we  HAD  to   have
on   our  system  to  get DEC maintainance on the cpu ;-). The SI
tri-density tape drive is manufactured by Storage Technology, and
is  used   by  numerous   OEMs  in  their  tape  systems.  I  did
quite a bit of research on it before we bought  ours  and  it  is
well thought of in the industry.

The complaint about the SI tape drive was  missing  some  crucial
information.   Was there any power filtering on the mains? If the
power failure was preceeded by a significant  overvoltage  (quite
common),  that  might give some very good explainations as to why
the drive fried. Why didn't anything else fry? Ask Murphy.

We had the SI equipment for about 18 months at the time I left my
fromer  employeer  (all  the equipment is still there and working
well today) and we had had nothing but good experience  with  the
product.  SI  maintained their part of the system (under maintai-
nance contract) and did so in a timely, competent manner.

I would like to add that the foregoing constitutes my own person-
al  opinion  and in  no way reflects  the opinion, either  pro or
con (I  guess  that's   what `no  way'  means  ;-),  of  my   em-
ployer,  clergyperson   or   any   other  sentient  being  on the
face of this planet.


R. L. (Ron) McDaniels
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