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- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Colorado Systems - Conversation
- Keywords: floppy-based tape drives
- Message-ID: <9212210942.12@rmkhome.UUCP>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 14:42:06 GMT
- References: <1992Dec16.225045.1285@netcom.com> <68@colornet.com>
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Lines: 32
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- In article <68@colornet.com> dfilip@colornet.com writes:
- >Tony Porczyk writes:
- >>rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
- >>>Tony Porczyk writes:
- >>
- >>>>That's a noble intention. Just show me a tape drive first that's as
- >>>>inexpensive as Colorado and as proven as Colorado.
- >>>>I think we should try to convince them first.
- >>>
- >>>The real answer is SCSI tape.
- >>>Tape drives that connect to floppy controllers suck.
- >>
- >>Agreed. That still doesn't answer my question, though. Have you compared
- >>the prices for SCSI tapes vs. floppy tapes lately? Also, for many small
- >>businesses floppy tape solutions are more than sufficient (if a bit slow).
- >
- >And I finally write :
- >
- >There is a BIG price differential between floppy-attached drives (i.e., the
- >Colorado QIC drives) and SCSI drives. For those of us who use this as a hobby,
- >the price of a SCSI tape may be difficult to justify.
- >
- >Yes, the floppy-attached tapes are quite a bit slower, however they sure beat
- >popping in dozens of diskettes ! And since Coherent is a $99 Unix, I would
- >think that cost would be a factor for many current Coherent users.
-
- Not if the tape fails to read later on. I have seen this all too much
- with floppy controlled tapes.
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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