7 Jul
2000
7 Jul
'00
2:31 p.m.
Re:
7980 normally an HP-IB animal? Hum.... I've sold hundreds of 7980 tape
drives direct from HP. Eric is right, they're made by HP, and pricebook has
them at $19,600.00. 99% of them were SCSI, and that was the factory default
config. There are additional options to change interfaces, the presence of
800bpi, etc. But without options, the default standard 7980 is always SCSI.
Interesting...I'd go along with Eric...the only SCSI ones I've ever seen
are the 88780's at a surplus place. I've heard of HP 3000 users trying
to find/buy the HPIB to SCSI conversion kit (because HP-IB is not supported
on MPE/iX as of release 6.5), and was told that HP had made all the kits
they'd ever make, and that they were just about out of them. I wouldn't
be surprised to find out that sales of 7980 tape drives in the last couple
of years were predominantly SCSI, however.
Stan Sieler sieler(a)allegro.com
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