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From: hlison@bbn.com (Herb Lison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 60 Mb Tape drives: Archive or Wangtec?
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Date: 29 Mar 88 17:57:56 GMT
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This information may be a little out of date, since it's about a year
old, but here goes anyway.

I found that I could get a half-height Wangtek tape for under $500
through a local electronics supplier, Lionex, which has nationwide
representation.  The Wangtek drive replaced one of the two floppies,
and connected directly to the floppy controller.  It came with a
very nice menu driven software interface and was reasonably speedy.
At the time I investigated this drive, the Archive was not available
in half-height, nor was its software particularly attractive.  I admit
that you can make a lot of changes and improvements in one year.

Wangtek also makes a SCSI interface tape, with a higher capacity, 120Mb,
I think, for about the same price as the floppy bus tape.  You may
want to check directly with Wangtek to find out the best place to get
their products in your area.

Herb Lison