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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Tape drive recommendations?
Date: 31 Mar 1997 18:21:47 GMT
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tgs@cats.ucsc.edu (Thomas Gunnar Sparks) wrote:

> you can get a cheap NCR SCSI card, and a 250MB SCSI tape for like 100$ 
> total.. its an easy solution..

I've even heard of Wangtek 5150ES drives for US$ 15. :)  They are loud,
yes, but that's a fair price.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)