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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 13:38:25 -0400
From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.psu.edu>
To: Tim Oneil <toneil@visigenic.com>
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Subject: Re: SCSI Hardware (was: QIC-80 Floppy Tapes)
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On Mon, Jun 30, 1997 at 09:32:22AM -0700, Tim Oneil wrote:

> 20% or so more for scsi devices, except tape drives, scsi tape drives
> are quite a bit more than non-scsi devices for some reason. I don't have

It looks like things may have changed since you priced tape drives.  A
Seagate Travan-4 drive (4 GB) that I just priced costs exactly the
same whether you buy SCSI internal or IDE internal.  The SCSI external
costs more, of course.

Were you comparing to floppy-controller tape drives, perhaps?