jamesd@qiclab.UUCP (James Deibele) (11/11/89)
In article <1199@jpusa1.UUCP> rick@jpusa1.UUCP (Rick Mills) writes: > Has anyone heard of a DC600 tape drive made by a company >called "Caliper"? I just recently saw an ad for one with a Wangtek >QIC-36 controller for an unvbelievable price - 359.00 (60 meg). I >just can't find anybody that's heard of them, and sometimes that's not >a good sign.... > Anybody had any experience good, bad or otherwise with this >product? Ah, a fellow "Nuts & Volts" reader. (Nuts & Volts is a monthly magazine full of new and surplus hardware for computers, ham radios, and cable TV.) When I called them, they had one of the 60MB tapes with XENIX drivers. The 125MB tape drives had MS-DOS software, but no XENIX/UNIX drivers. I've been trying to get through to SCO to see if they might support them. Supposedly these are resold by Everex, and I've been told by several people that the Wangtek controller is a "standard" controller that ought to work with just about any OS. But it would be nice to be sure before laying down the money ... The 125MB drives are going for $495 and the drives supposedly do 32MB in 4 minutes, but even in the ad they say "your mileage may vary." I too would appreciate any info on these drives. If the word is good, I'll give the phone number out after I've got mine. :-) -- James Deibele jamesd@qiclab BBSs: (503) 760-1473 or (503) 761-7451 TECHBooks: The Computer Book Specialists --- Voice: (503) 646-8257 12600 SW 1st Beaverton, OR 97005 --- Book reviewers wanted for computer science & electronics - contact us for more information.