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- From: xiaoyan@ecf.toronto.edu (XIAO Yan)
- Subject: Summary of 3rd party memory and disk
- Message-ID: <BuJpBq.1HE@ecf.toronto.edu>
- Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 01:55:02 GMT
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- Thanks for many responses to my original post regarding
- buying third party memory and disk.
-
- Almost all recommended Impediment (617)-837-8877 for both, with
- lots of praising words. I called Impediment and indeed the
- service and knowledge about SGI machines from the salesman
- were pretty good. Most also expressed that the product
- bought from Impediment was quite reliable.
-
- If you prefer more choices (well, Impediment is not a monopoly
- on SGI's peripherals), in info-iris archive there are bits and bits
- of information on this, and you can ask me for a copy, or its original
- editor <blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov>.
-
- For folks in Canada, esp. around Toronto, here is some good news:
- you don't have to go cross-border shopping. Call Dialog (790-0660)
- for a recent quote on disk and memory. I have called Dialog and
- Impedment and they bit against each other with the buzz words: "We'll
- beat them". The result so far on memory: Impediment $1200 for 32Meg
- high density (US), and Dialog $1600 (Can). If you have two telephone
- lines, you can have a live bit simultaneously I guess :-).
-
- For service reason (Impediment says this is a bad reason as the drive
- is very/very/very reliable), we chose Dialog for the disk (3 yrs on-site
- service). A Fujits 1.2 Giga is $2586 (Can) with external kit.
-
- Thanks for the following kind folks, and those posted to news or
- sent reply but somehow did not get to me:
-
- : Fisher <scfisher@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- : rocek@max.physics.sunysb.edu (Martin Rocek)
- : bruggink@neep.engr.wisc.edu (Dennis Bruggink)
- : <teskridg@NMSU.Edu>
- : suhonen@jalka.jyu.fi (Timo Suhonen)
- : "John D. McCalpin" <mccalpin@perelandra.cms.udel.edu>
- : "Brent L. Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB" <blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov>
- : willick@skorpio.usask.ca (Darryl Willick)
-
-
- Xiao
- <xiaoyan@ecf.toronto.edu>
-