[geeks] Cheap refurb SCSI drives?

Charles Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Wed Oct 18 15:28:25 CDT 2006


Wed, 18 Oct 2006 @ 13:16 -0600, Dan Duncan said:

> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > All of the DEC systems I saw from the 90s had Seagate drives.
> 
> In the early to mid-90's, DEC was still making DEC-labelled RZ27 and
> RZ28 drives here in Colorado Springs.  (and presumably other places)
> When they started making the RZ29 drives I saw, they were labelled
> as Seagate drives.  Everything got exported at some point after that.

DEC labeled non-DEC drives with the same numbers sometimes.

I'm pretty sure there were Seagate RZ28 drives, which as far as I can
recall just meant it was a 2GB wide SCSI drive.



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