23 Sep
2008
23 Sep
'08
12:49 p.m.
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:40:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
Al, the
auction link I posted was for a standard 50 pin to IDE interface
for $30. As of the time I posted the message he had 525 of them left.
Buy 'em now before you need 'em. :)
That's a **** good price! I don't need Narrow SCSI anywhere near as much
as I need newer versions, but I'm still considering buying some. This
could be a good way to get a cheap *BIG* disk on a VMS system for backing
up the SCSI disks to. Anyone happen to know how large of disks these
support? Any idea if this outfit combines shipping?
They're charging a pretty high
shipping cost for something like this.
I don't know if they combine shipping. $10 for shipping does seem
excessive, especially since the things don't weigh anything.
Also, those are used 7720Us and do not include the power dongle. However,
the power dongle is simply a 'Y' splitter which terminates in a regular
hard drive power connector and a floppy drive power connector. Your hard
drive needs a power connector of course, and the 7720U draws its power
from a floppy style connector.
That style of splitter is getting harder to find, but many of the folks on
this list may have them on hand--or a regular two-hard drive splitter and
a hard drive to floppy drive power adapter.
Oh, and the Ebay guy doesn't ship internationally.
I'm not trying to be discouraging; it's still a very good price, but
there are some details buyers should be aware of. I feel free to point
these things out since I sold the last of my *new* 7720Us ($39 + $4.85
shipping with power dongle) a couple of weeks ago. :-)
Jeff Walther