Need help in buying tape drive

Richard Foulk richard at pegasus.com
Sat Jun 15 10:29:49 AEST 1991


>>a DC6150 tape. It is formatted at 150 megs. I need to know of the
>>cheapest tape drive that I can get to read it. Yes I have a Computer
>>Shopper but I don't know which one to get. Dell wants $799 for theirs,
>>but I know that I can do better than that. Any advice or specific ads
>>will be greatly appreciated.
>
>799 isn't bad - the drive we use on our boxes are Archives 2150S

There was a discussion about tape drives in this group some months back.
I seem to recall some indication that the Wangtek drives were preferable.

They supposedly have better heads and handle the DC6250 (250 meg) tapes
more reliably.


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Richard Foulk		richard at pegasus.com



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