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From: pim@ctisbv.UUCP (Pim Zandbergen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: First impressions: 3B2 120MB SCSI tape drive
Keywords: wonderful, fabulous, get one *now*
Message-ID: <539@ctisbv.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 88 19:15:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: ctisbv.539
References: <899@vsi.COM>
Reply-To: pim@ctisbv.UUCP (Pim Zandbergen)
Organization: CTI Software BV, The Hague, The Netherlands
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In article <899@vsi.COM> friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
>Hiho net.folks,
>
>     These are some first impressions of the 120MB SCSI cartridge
>tape drive available for the 3B2.

[ much praise deleted ]

All of us who upgraded from 3B2/400s to 3b2/500s or 3b2/600s
know how much nicer/better/faster the built-in 60MB SCSI 
cartridge tape drive is over the 23MB floppy-drive-emulating tape thing
used in the 400.

What I'd like to know is how the 120MB tape drive compares to
to the 60MB tape drive.

While I'm on the subject of comparing SCSI devices for the 3B2,
AT&T sells both native SCSI hard disks and ESDI hard disks that
need a SCSI-to-ESDI thing like the ones that come with the
3B2/600. Does anybody have experience with both types?
How do they compare in speed?
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