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From: louis@auvax.UUCP (Louis Schmittroth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Tape Backup Units
Summary: Colorado Jumbo backup units
Message-ID: <842@auvax.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 89 17:01:08 GMT
References: <425@darth.UUCP>
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Organization: Athabasca U., Alberta, Canada
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In article <425@darth.UUCP>, liber@darth.UUCP (Eric Liber) writes:
> running DOS3.3. Here are my questions:
> 
> 5) I have seen some good prices on Colorado Tape units .. how are these ?

I just installed a Colorado JUMBO tape unit on the second floppy port of
my controller (Adaptec 2372), and am pleased as punch with it so far,
considering the price.  It takes forever (38 minutes) to format a tape,
but the actual backup is swift -- about 10MB in 6 minutes.  I am running
it under both Xenix 2.3 and DOS 3.3.  The software supplied with unit is
great in both cases.  This is on a TCR 386/20 AT type machine.
-- 

Louis Schmittroth, Computer Science, Athabasca University
auvax!louis