Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!BIOVAX.RUTGERS.EDU!hamm From: hamm@BIOVAX.RUTGERS.EDU Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Request for info: tape drives on Q-bus machines Message-ID: <8808080926.AA04874@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> Date: 3 Aug 88 18:59:00 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Organization: The Internet Lines: 20 We have some users who have recently purchased a VAXstation-3500 for use in a laboratory/data acquisition application. Now they would like to add a 1600/6250 bpi tape drive to the beast for archiving of data and exchange with other laboratories. Does anyone have any information/comments/pointers on Q-bus tape drives, including price, performance, reliability, and mounting requirements? Thanks, Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gregory H. Hamm || Phone: (201)932-4864 Director, Molecular Biology Computing Lab || Waksman Institute/CABM || BITNET: hamm@biovax P.O. Box 759, Rutgers University || ARPA: hamm@biovax.rutgers.edu Piscataway, NJ 08854 * USA || ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------