Mail Archives: opendos/1997/09/17/15:01:38
On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, -= ArkanoiD =- wrote:
> nuqneH,
>
> In message <97Sep17.195452gmt+0100 DOT 11650 AT internet01 DOT amc DOT de> Christopher Croughton writes:
> >
> > > SCSI controller is the thing i need _anyways_. And you can buy it *much*
> > > cheaper.
> >
> > As I said, I don't need one for anything else. The only peripherals on
> > the PC are video (PCI bus), serial and parallel ports (on the motherboard),
> > mouse (you can't convince me a mouse needs SCSI!) and MIDI interface,
> > plus the hard and floppy disks and a "flopy-tape" streamer (QIC-20).
>
> Floppy tape! Pfff...
>
> > > I have a couple of VAXen and a Macintrash.
> >
> > VAXen used to be good when they came out. Or are these the microVAXen?
>
> MicroVAXen,sure. I don't have enough place at home to keep big ones ;)
> VAXen are always good. Forever. DEC still does manufacture them.
>
> > > There still are *small* tape streamers ;)
> >
> > Which fit quite well on the cheap (free) floppy interface,
>
> It is _slow_! I have one.. I will replace it with SCSI asap. It is even
> slower than QIC-02. Actually it is n _times_ slower!
Not to mention that the floppy tapes are way more expensive per megabyte.
I can get 4GB DAT tapes for about $20, the same capacity on floppy tapes
would cost quite a bit.
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