21 Feb
2006
21 Feb
'06
3:12 p.m.
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 17:41, Wulf daMan wrote:
At present, I'm looking into a scsi controller,
tied to a zip
drive. This should provide enough capacity to do the job, and I can
still get zip disks. Dilog still builds them, for about $1100, which
is the best price I've found for any unibus scsi interface.
You might try talking to some resellers, (like Keyways, for instance),
and see if you can get a better price, but I'm not sure that you can do
much better than that, unless you get lucky.
You might consider some other medium besides a zip disk.
Actually, I think I'd go for a DLT4000 or 7000 drive connected to the
SCSI controller. Tapes are fairly inexpensive, and you can get
20/35GB uncompressed per tape. The media and drives are also IME
somewhat more durable than 9-tracks are. I've gotten DLT7000 drives on
ebay for less than $50 each; 4000s should be quite a bit cheaper, and
possibly more reliable. Used media - a DLT IV cart in either case - is
cheap (<$5/tape), and usually works just fine. New media is still
widely available, and not horribly expensive.
Plus, you might be able to find a "tape-only" UNIBUS SCSI controller for
less $$ than a disk-capable SCSI controller will cost (at least, that's
how it works for some QBUS SCSI controllers).
Pat
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