david@bdt.com (David Beckemeyer) (06/22/91)
I have a Qualstar 9-track tape drive which I might be interested
in selling. The thing is that I don't know how much it's worth.
When I bought it four years ago, it cost me $3,500.
It is a Qualstar Model 1052 desktop tape drive. When I looked
at all the various low-end 9-track tape drives at the time, it
was one of the nicest that I'd seen. I bought it from a company
called Overland Data with an IBM PC controller card. The drive
is a regular 9-track interface and would work in any standard
9-track sub-system. Overland Data still exists and offers
tech. support and such for the drive and controller. The drive
handles full-size 9-track tapes at 1600 and 3200 bpi.
So how much is this thing worth? Anybody want to buy it?
It works fine. I'm only selling it because I really seldom
ever need to transfer tapes to and from other systems anymore,
which is what I bought it for (and used for).
If you want to use it in a PC, the conreoller comes with Unix
drivers and DOS programs for backup and reading foreign tapes.
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