14 Jan
2010
14 Jan
'10
4:30 p.m.
On Jan 14, 2010, at 9:57 AM, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
SCSI hard disk drives are relatively rare, but
probably inexpensive.
The older drives of less than 10 GB are no longer seen very often.
However, I have a number of (very?) noisy 2 GB drives I rarely use.
The host adapters are still expensive. The alternatives are ESDI or
MFM drives. ESDI controllers may be less available. The RQDXn
controllers from DEC should be more available.
Good heavens. On what planet are SCSI drives rare? And on what
planet are they inexpensive?
At first (after picking myself up off the floor) I thought maybe
you mistyped and meant "SCSI host adapters", which certainly are
rare...but since they're far from inexpensive, that couldn't be it.
To inject a little reality into this paragraph:
SCSI drives are everywhere, while ESDI drives are comparatively
difficult to find, and MFM drives are becoming somewhat difficult to
find. For DEC machines, SCSI host adapters are rare and expensive,
ESDI controllers are a bit more common and less expensive. RQDX3s
are as common as dirt, with RQDX2 and RQDX1 boards less so but still
not difficult to get.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL