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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!usc!wupost!uunet!sci34hub!gary From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) Subject: Re: tape drive advice needed Message-ID: <1992Dec8.155302.18181@sci34hub.sci.com> Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al. References: <195@triplex> <1992Dec4.153056.11277@telebit.com> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1992 15:53:02 GMT Lines: 26 In article <1992Dec4.153056.11277@telebit.com> bjork@telebit.com (Steven Bjork) writes: |In article <195@triplex> roger@triplex.socal.com (Roger Knobbe) writes: |>Can I put something together for <$500? Or should I forget the idea and |>use the money to get another/bigger IDE drive. |Yes, for <$200 get the Adaptec 1542b without any DOS software, |then scoop up one of the Sun "shoeboxes" readily available |on the net, or from such used dealers as Minicomputer Exchange |in Sunnyvale. The Sun boxes have the Emulex MT02 with a 60meg |tape drive, and seem to sell (with tape only) for about $200. I'm sure lot of us out here would like to know where to get a 1542b for <$200; all the prices I've seen have been around $260 or higher. Do the above-mentioned shoeboxes include a hard drive of any kind? I'm looking at upgrade paths at the moment, and would like to go to SCSI instead of rll. I'd like that a lot, if it was affordable.... -- Gary Heston SCI Systems, Inc. gary@sci34hub.sci.com site admin The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither. "Data sheet: HSN-3000 Nuclear Event Detector. The [NED] senses the gamma radiation pulse [from a] nuclear weapon." As if we wouldn't notice...