Scrapping Tektronix 4695 (was Re: Scrapping LA100 & Diablo printers)

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Thu Oct 4 11:26:40 2001

>At 08:26 PM 10/3/01 -0700, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>>Later, it was a Syquest 44Mb
>>drive. It was nice, but the carts cost so much that I never bought any
>>more; I just used it as an expensive 44Mb semi-fixed SCSI drive. :-(
>
>Hey, if you need a few Syquest drives or carts ... :-)

When I bought my 44 MB first Syquest I budgeted for 5 cartridges, and used
it quite a bit, initially for backups, and later on as just a handy
portable scsi boot device. Once I had a bootable CD that kind of fell off,
but recently I bought a EZ230 and a 270 MB drive, and those I expect to put
some usefull things on (small projects like a NETBsd firewall to copy to
internal drives).

Sometimes a network connection, even old slow LocalTalk is the most
convient thing to use. SCSI has fussy issues it isn't worth sorting out.
Received on Thu Oct 04 2001 - 11:26:40 BST