[OT] Used Exabyte wanted

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Thu Aug 19 12:52:19 1999

I just sold my spare 8505XL, but you should have no trouble finding one for
sale by searching dejanews power search using the string "SALE & EXABYTE."
The software supporting these drives is so shabby that of the four major
packages (of which I have all) for Windows, only one really works in the
general case, and not a one works predictably. My DOS-based software works
perfectly every time with it, though, as with the EXB-8200's which are more
common and more poorly supported because they're SCSI-1.

Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Thursday, August 19, 1999 8:29 AM
Subject: [OT] Used Exabyte wanted


>
>I'd like to pick up a used Exabyte 85xx 8mm SCSI tape drive at a good
price.
>An 8505 would be great, a 8500 would be OK, a robo-library would be nice
>at a nice price. I'd rather buy from someone I "know" than from eBay.
>
>- John
>
Received on Thu Aug 19 1999 - 12:52:19 BST