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In article <1992Aug20.104745.22330@spectrum.xerox.com> braven@rx.xerox.com writes:
>Thanks, thats something I was wondering about as well. A couple of questions though.
>What does "archive viper 150" mean? I am only aware of one 150MB external tape drive sold by Sun and I am not familiar with this phrase. Also, what are ASPITAR ans SYTOS?
Archive is a tape drive manufacturer, Viper is the one of the models of
tape drive that Archive manufacture. Aspitar is a version of tar
written to work with the ASPI4DOS driver that comes with the Adaptec
1542B SCSI controller. Sytos is a tape backup system written by Sytron.
>I am also interested in the same thing as the original poster, but the
>Sun tape drive is a little expensive (the last list price I saw was 1200
>pounds sterling). Anybody know of anything considerably cheaper???
Yes there are cheaper alternatives. I bought my streamer second hand for about
300 quid + the 160 pound customs charge that was slapped on it *8-(
Storage direct sell a SANKYO CP150SE for 425 pounds, and they also sell the