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Re: SUN3/50 selling for $4995

>I'm not sure what you get for your $5K; perhaps some Sun person in net land
>could provide more information.

MC68020 @ 15MHZ, 4MB, 19" 1152 X 900 Monochrome, 2 Serial ports, 1
Ethernet port, SCSI Port and built in controller, Sun Single User
Binary License (4.2 Superset, includes things like NFS, 4.3
performance enhancements, SunWindows (also can run X), C, Pascal,
Fortran, SunCore, SunCGI etc etc etc.)

Ok guys, this is professional quality stuff. Now for my question:

	Does anyone know any inexpensive, even slowish, disks that
	can be hooked up to the SUN3/50 SCSI port?

	Off-the-cuff Requirements (try me!):

	1. Probably at least 100MB.

	2. By slowish (this isn't PC world) I mean, say, 35msec
           or thereabouts.

	3. Nice if there were a tape option, even a mediocre one
	   for occasional backups (I could UUCP incrementals.)

	4. Price: Well, Sun's 141MB costs us $4830, half that
	   would be worth considering. The 71MB is probably a
	   little small for me, almost...

Note: Sun's disk options are fine and much better than I need at home,
I'd be happy with a little less for personal use.

Please, I'd like to hear from users, not "well the foo has a SCSI
interface so it *should* work", I know, but I don't have time to
tinker around (well, I'd write a driver if need be, but I don't want
to be a hardware guinea pig for this usage.)

	-Barry Shein, Boston University