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- From: karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish)
- Subject: Re: 9-Track Tape for Suns?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.202105.16484@morrow.stanford.edu>
- Summary: SCSI
- Sender: news@morrow.stanford.edu (News Service)
- Organization: Mindcraft, Inc.
- References: <1992Sep11.145100.4100@asd.com> <1992Sep13.071546.7767@ukw.uucp>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:21:05 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- In article <1992Sep13.071546.7767@ukw.uucp> lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
- writes:
- >scott@asd.com (Scott Barman) writes:
- >
- >>We need a 9-Track tape drive that is capable of 1600 BPI and 6250 BPI so
- >>that tapes written on a mainframe can be read on the Suns [ ... ]
- >
- >>Besides Cipher (the only manufacturer I could remember), does anyone
- >>know of other manufacturers and (most importantly) how we can contact
- >>them?
- >
- >Sun sells hp 9 track tape drives. If you want third-party, browse
- >through the Catalyst. Or SunWorld, etc.
-
- The HP drive is a SCSI unit that's being resold by a
- number of vendors, including Sun and IBM, with their
- own nameplates.
-
- There's a Kennedy 1/2" 9-track drive available with a
- Pertec or a SCSI interface, at your option. Contact
- Shugart Corporation for more information:
-
- Shugart Corporation
- 1641 North First Street
- San Jose, CA 95112
- (408) 453-8920 (voice)
- (408) 453-8939 (FAX)
-
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-
- Chuck Karish karish@mindcraft.com
- (415) 323-9000 x117 karish@forel.stanford.edu
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