Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!moray!siswat!buck
From: buck@siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: tape streamers question
Summary: not hard to find better prices - shop around
Keywords: QIC-24 tape streamers
Message-ID: <365@siswat.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 88 03:02:15 GMT
References: <1516@bebux.UUCP> <17474@conexch.UUCP>
Organization: Photon Graphics, Houston
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In article <17474@conexch.UUCP>, root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera) writes:
> The tape backup system I market is Archive's "FasTape".  This is an
> external system mounted in a stand-alone cabinet with its own power supply
> so, it won't over burden your AT's internal power supply.  
> [...]
> This tape system is very rugged and professionally implemented; suggested
> retail price is $1095.00, but I give fellow Xenix/UNIX users a great deal on
> this tape system at $695.  That includes the Tape drive, controller card,
> cable, and PC-DOS program.  
> [ commercial information deleted ]

I bought this exact configuration almost two years ago.  I bought
from someplace advertising in the Computer Hot Line magazine/trade
rag that is filled with ads.  I paid something like $459 plus
shipping.  (Of course, I didn't get/want any support or hand-holding
for such a price.)

Shop around, you can probably do much better than $695.

P.S.  It does work like quite well.  It even allows me to tap in to
	the QIC-36 bus and run Archives PC bus controller or an
	Emulex SCSI-to-QIC36 controller without re-cabling.
	Only problem I have is that the Microport driver for
	the Archive controller card (a beta version) has a random
	lock-up problem under System V/AT v2.4 when I use the
	Adaptec 2372 disk controller, so I am stuck with MFM
	for a while longer...


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A. Lester Buck		...!uhnix1!moray!siswat!buck