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- From: bash@tware.com (Paul Bash)
- Subject: Re: SUMMARY: SCSI Tape Backups
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.132709.7186@tware.com>
- Organization: Techware Design, Boulder, Colorado
- References: <1992Dec22.085210.12463@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:27:09 GMT
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- [speaking about the Archive Python DAT]
-
- >>4. How much did you pay for it? (This is kinda important.. I'm working
- >> on a college-student budget.. *sigh*)
- >
- >Unfortunately for you, DAT is still way too expensive. I paid about $1400.00
- >for the drive, and about $125.00 for PCTools. The best price I found for the
- >drive was $1350.00 (bundled with Sytos+... I think there might have been a
- >listing at $1300.00 with no software at all somewhere, and if I had known then
- >about Sytos+ I would have done that instead). Since the drive is a 3.5" half
- >height drive, I had to install it in a 5.25" half-height drive bay. The bezel
- >and adaptor rails are only available from Archive and cost $50.00 (amazingly
- >expensive for two chunks of folded steel, but it does have a replacement face
- >plate for the drive so that it nicely fills the space). Manual are also extra
- >($50.00 for the Archive Python SCSI manual, I haven't priced the "Product
- >Description" manual).
- >
- >>5. Recommendations as to where to purchase one?
- >
- >I got mine from APS (Aliance Peripheral Systems) in Indepenance, MO.
- >Their order line is (800) 233-7550.
- >
-
- I just purchased an internal Archive Python with the 5.25" mounting brackets
- from Hard Drive Super Source for $1149. It came only with a quick install
- reference manual. An external version was $100 more.
-
- Their address:
-
- HDSS
- 1202 Kifer Road
- Sunnyvale, CA 94086
- 408-739-9010
-
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- Paul Bash Techware Design
- bash@tware.com Boulder, CO U.S.A.
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