Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 21:21:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Pechter <pechter@lakewood.com> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this (SCSI) tape drive compatible with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199708310121.VAA13486@i4got.lakewood.com> In-Reply-To: <199708310015.RAA00360@ns.feral.com> from Matthew Jacob at "Aug 30, 97 05:15:39 pm"
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> >A 250meg capacity is awfully small today, and the tapes are too expensive. > >They're also excruciatingly slow. Expensive... I've been buying new ones for $.25 per tape... They're NCR in the shrink wrap from a surplus house. Slow -- yes. Expensive -- not if you know where to look. I just picked up a 4 dat changer for $250 refurb... so the 150 is just going to be used for compatibility with boxes at work. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 | 908-389-3592 pechter@lakewood.com | Save computing history, give an old geek old hardware. This msg brought to you by the letters PDP and the number 11.
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