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- From: zgeo0a@hou.amoco.com (Greg Ochab,PSC)
- Subject: Re: Colorado Systems - Conversation
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- Organization: Amoco
- References: <01GSL54CYYEA8WW85Q@delphi.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:08:31 GMT
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- In article 01GSL54CYYEA8WW85Q@delphi.com, GREGL@DELPHI.COM (Greg Law) writes:
- >For what it's worth, I paid less than $200 for a Colorado tape drive,
- >which is significantly less than a SCSI tape drive of similar capacity.
- >If I had an infinite budget (as some of you seem to profess you do), I
- >I would have a 486DX/2-66, 2GB SCSI drives, a SCSI streamer, and Interactive
- >UNIX. But I, like many others, do not have infinite budgets so we buy what
- >we can afford.
- >
- >And what difference does it make whether or not the tape is so fast it
- >smokes on a backup? I perform all of my backups late at night while I'm
- >sleeping, so I could care less if it takes 10 minutes or 6 hours. Besides,
- >it does the job very well thank you and I applaud MWC for developing drivers
- >for the QIC-40 and QIC-80 drives. . . I suspect these are the drives most
- >folks will use with Coherent because they are priced in a league with
- >Coherent -- inexpensive.
- >
- > -- Greg
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- I second everything he said.
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- Gregory E. Ochab, geochab@hou.amoco.com, 312/856-4889
- Standard disclaimer applies.
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