Brad,
Well, I guess I have a paper weight for now then and just need to be
patient and keep both eyes open. Congrats on scoring two of each for your
drives!
And yeah, from the pictures I have found of those earlier cartridges, they
really were poorly labeled.
-Peter
On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM brad via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
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
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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>>> >>