22 Apr
2012
22 Apr
'12
6:07 a.m.
On 04/22/2012 01:52 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Dave
McGuire<mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
Back when 50MB on an
Amiga was "abundant" (into the early 1990s), I
picked up a new Syquest44 drive for somewhere less than $400 including
at least one cartridge if not a couple more. I used it daily for many
years until 44MB was no longer adequate. It's still sitting in its
desk niche, in the same SCSI cabinet as my original sub-1X SCSI CD-ROM
drive (NEC CDR74?) It was working the last time I used it, but that's
been well over 10 years.
I still have a working Syquest 270mb cartridge drive and over a dozen carts
for it (3.5" format) in a syquest parallel port interface box. The
internal
interface is Parallel IDE. The only thing that has died (recent too)
is the
wall wart and its' easily replaced. I got that back in the 90s. when 270mb
was a lot of storage even if fixed.
Allison
On the
other hand, I'm not aware of any Syquest 44MB removable drives
still in operation.
Oh I remember those. I've never actually used one
though. A friend
had a couple, not sure what kind of luck he had with them.