15 Jan
2010
15 Jan
'10
5:19 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: small-cap SCSI was Re: Collections
At 8:34 PM -0800 1/14/10, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
This is true. While they may be around, they are much harder to actually
get.
The machines that used these are basically gone. The machines and drives
that are still around are likely to be in the hands of collectors like us,
or else in the stockpiles of resellers. I know I have a nice small
collection for my PDP-11's.
Zane
Old small IDE laptop drives are also a little hard to find in working
condition at a resonable price. I am sure people with old SCSI machines in
their collection are finding the drives are dying out, so the spares will be
drying up sooner or later.
Oddly enough even scrappers seem to want a bunch of money for small old SCSI
and IDE drives, for me it is cheaper just to get a whole laptop or desktop
with a drive then just the drive itself (same source).
One other thing, people in the hobby for a long time (I am new to collecting
starting around 2001 or so) will have things in storage they used to trip
over that are now hard to find in the wild. If you throw enough money around
you can still get anything you need, just makes it harder to do on a budget.
Good heavens. On what planet are SCSI drives rare?
And on what
planet are they inexpensive?
Mostly just repeating what I saw here about 50 pin SCSI hard drives
of less than 10 GB. When I finally managed to purchase a few such
drives about 10 years ago, they were not that easy to find at a low
price.