20 Jul
2025
20 Jul
'25
6:40 p.m.
I can attest these carts are nearly impossible to find. I hunted for eons to find a 5mb
for my SQ306rd. Last month I found a 'QPAK' and was all excited but it turned out
to be a 10MB SQ200 instead. Which is fine, because right after that I found a 2 unit
Tecmar drive that had both a 5mb and 10mb Syquest drive in it and both appear to have one
cartridge each. So now I have two kicks at the can for the 10mb drive and one for the
5mb.But yeah.. super hard to find. I think part of it is the early carts are not well
labeled and look like random junk to most people.BradSent from my Galaxy
-------- Original message --------From: Wayne S via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: 2025-07-20 1:45 p.m. (GMT-08:00) To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and
Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Cc: Travis Pierce
<travispierce70(a)gmail.com>om>, Wayne S <wayne.sudol(a)hotmail.com> Subject:
[cctalk] Re: SyQuest disk anyone? Easier to get the serial zip drive to work. There’s
still carts available for those.Sent from my iPhone> On Jul 20, 2025, at 13:15, Peter
Ekstrom via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:> > I did find that out a
little while ago. But the disks do seem as rare as> hen's teeth for sure!> I
came across an SQ319RD drive for cheap a little while back and was> thinking of trying
to get it to work with one of my PDP-11s, but without a> disk it is just a paper
weight.> Figured I'd ask here too but you just confirmed I'm going to have to
be> very patient. I'd like to have a few disks but right now I just need one so>
I can verify the drive works.> > -Peter> >> On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Travis Pierce <travispierce70(a)gmail.com>>> wrote:>> >> I've
been looking for these removable drive cartridges for years with no>> luck. Sysgen
called these DuraPak's and SyQuest called them Q-PAK's. I'm>> not sure
why they had different names.>> >> On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 9:25 AM Peter
Ekstrom via cctalk <>> cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:>> >>> I am
looking for a 15MB SQ300 disk cartridge in working condition.>>> Anyone have one
they wouldn't mind parting with?>>> >>> - Peter>>> >>