Hello, Daryl.

Tuesday September 09 2008 at 11:39, you wrote to Robert Wolfe:

 DS>   I had a tape drive long ago, but they are so expensive nowadays.
 DS> I recently used my Office Depot rewards card to get an external
 DS> USB drive to back up the BBS...my final cost for that 320 Gigabyte
 DS> drive was only $40, thanks to the rewards card. However, I haven't
 DS> had a chance to install it yet.

I got one of my 4/8GB DDS-2 DAT drives for under $20 on eBay and the other
one was given to me.  I can get 1.3/2.6GB DAT tapes for $2.99 and 4/8GB
tapes for $4.99.  I'd hardly call that expensive. :)

Now, granted, both drives are SCSI drives, but I've had several Adaptec
2940-U/UW cards given to me, so those aren't a problem.

Later,
Sean

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