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From: darryl@ism780c.isc.com (Darryl Richman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Back Up Cartridge Systems
Keywords: Mass Micro back up cartridge
Message-ID: <17755@ism780c.isc.com>
Date: 11 Oct 88 18:46:39 GMT
References: <965@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Reply-To: darryl@ism780c.UUCP (Darryl Richman)
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Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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In reply, and also to follow up on a posting I made a couple weeks ago,
let me say that I am now quite pleased with my DPI 44R removable
cartridge disk.  All of the 45 mb cartridge disks are made by SyQuest,
so the major distinctions are price, software, and support.

The DPI was, at the time I bought, the cheapest.  They were offering
a user group discount;  I paid $1295 for the drive, 2 cartridges, and
a 25<->50 pin SCSI cable.

As you may recall, I was having problems with it connected to my Mac II.
It wouldn't work, although my old Jasmine Direct Drive 20 worked fine.
I was able to get Apple to swap motherboards under warranty and now it
is just great.  (I still don't know what was wrong, but the DPI worked
with every other Mac I connected it to.)

The drive is very fast (I *think* they are advertising 18 ms access time,
but don't count on my memory) and quiet.  It is a bit slow to spin up
and down.  DPI supplies a diskette with a formatter program and a CDEV
for mounting the hard disk.  It has an external switch for setting the
SCSI ID, but termination is inside the box (4 screws).  There are 2 50
pin SCSI connectors on the back.

		--Darryl Richman
-- 
Copyright (c) 1988 Darryl Richman     The views expressed are the author's alone
darryl@ism780c.isc.com       INTERACTIVE Systems Corp.--An Eastman Kodak Company
  "For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, elegant, and wrong."
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