Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 16:03:34 -0300 (GMT-0300)
From: Roberto Alsina <ralsina AT unl DOT edu DOT ar>
To: -= ArkanoiD =- <ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru>
cc: crough45 AT amc DOT de, opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: ClosedDOS???
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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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