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- From: hugh@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (Hugh D. Gamble)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: Tape drives
- Message-ID: <6119@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 21:49:08 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.120852.13882@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
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- Organization: NTT Systems, Inc., Toronto, Canada
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- In article <1992Jul21.120852.13882@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> kzyx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
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- > Which one is best?
- > A3070, which uses DC600 tapes and costs $525 (Safe Harbor).
-
- and DC6150 (officially). I'm using DC6250s in the drive as well,
- despite evil sounding warnings that come with the tapes about possible
- increased head wear.
-
- > Touchdown 100, uses DC6150/DC6250 tapes and
- > costs $499 (Central Cost Software)
-
- What drive is it? The 3070s used to be mostly Caliper drives.
-
- I have no complaints with the 3070, and you know it works with the
- driver s/w.
-
- > Could also forget tapes and buy a syquest like device.
-
- I got the QIC-150 for data transportability, but I could really use
- the miltiGigabyte capacity of a DAT.
-
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