I've recently aquired an old SyQuest SyJet1se 1.5 G external drive with no cartridge. I suspect the drive might work. Does anyone in the city sell these cartridges anymore, or is this drive dumpster filling?
Most of the time, these are dumpster filling. However, I think I remember someone who might have a couple of cartridges left in stock. I'll check with him tommorow for you. Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "millward" <millward@ms.umanitoba.ca> To: <roundtable@muug.mb.ca> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 3:49 PM Subject: [RndTbl] SyQuest SyJet1se
I've recently aquired an old SyQuest SyJet1se 1.5 G external drive with no cartridge. I suspect the drive might work. Does anyone in the city sell these cartridges anymore, or is this drive dumpster filling?
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On July 30, 2004 03:49 pm, millward wrote:
I've recently aquired an old SyQuest SyJet1se 1.5 G external drive with no cartridge. I suspect the drive might work. Does anyone in the city sell these cartridges anymore, or is this drive dumpster filling?
I have a couple of old 45MB cartridges clones which may work. We can try one and see what happens. I understand the 80MB unit will use either 45 or 80MB disks. If the 45 will work I might persuade a friend from BC to bring a few more when he visits his parents in December. Later Mike -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Digital Civilization magazine: http://www.digitalcivilization.ca | |Call-A.P.P.L.E. and the Digital Civilization http://www.callapple.org | | http://members.shaw.ca/pfaiffer = Mike Pfaiffer (B.A., B.Sc.) | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ----- BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK ----- Version: 3.12 GCS/G/IT/PA/SS d s+:- a? C++ UL L++ W++ N++ o+ K- w(---) O+@ M++@ V PS+ PE !PGP t+ 5+ X R tv b+ DI+++ D++ G e++* h! r-- !y-- UF++ ------ END GEEK CODE BLOCK ------
The SyJet is a VERY different drive than the old SyQuest drives. This is a 1.5GB disk and it _does not_ take the old style cartridges. I remember drooling over the SyJet back when it was competing against the original 1GB Jazz drive. They were really nice, but eBay is probably the best place to look for cartridges, IIRC they were about $150 new, so they are definitely not worth buying new cartridges. If you are going to toss it, I would love to have one for my collection and I could pick it up. shawn On 31-Jul-04, at 1:03 AM, Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
On July 30, 2004 03:49 pm, millward wrote:
I've recently aquired an old SyQuest SyJet1se 1.5 G external drive with no cartridge. I suspect the drive might work. Does anyone in the city sell these cartridges anymore, or is this drive dumpster filling?
I have a couple of old 45MB cartridges clones which may work. We can try one and see what happens. I understand the 80MB unit will use either 45 or 80MB disks. If the 45 will work I might persuade a friend from BC to bring a few more when he visits his parents in December.
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On July 31, 2004 01:38 am, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
The SyJet is a VERY different drive than the old SyQuest drives. This is a 1.5GB disk and it _does not_ take the old style cartridges.
OK. Now I know.
I remember drooling over the SyJet back when it was competing against the original 1GB Jazz drive. They were really nice, but eBay is probably the best place to look for cartridges, IIRC they were about $150 new, so they are definitely not worth buying new cartridges.
In the day I was still using my Apple IIGS as my main computer. As long as it was a SCSI drive it would work.
If you are going to toss it, I would love to have one for my collection and I could pick it up.
I still use it for my Apple IIGS harddrive. If you have a bunch of working 80MB units I wouldn't mind trading up and help you fill out your collection. The big thing is I still have to have a working unit on this machine. This is actually a clone of the Syquest drive. It's called a Dynatek.
shawn
Later Mike -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Digital Civilization magazine: http://www.digitalcivilization.ca | |Call-A.P.P.L.E. and the Digital Civilization http://www.callapple.org | | http://members.shaw.ca/pfaiffer = Mike Pfaiffer (B.A., B.Sc.) | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ----- BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK ----- Version: 3.12 GCS/G/IT/PA/SS d s+:- a? C++ UL L++ W++ N++ o+ K- w(---) O+@ M++@ V PS+ PE !PGP t+ 5+ X R tv b+ DI+++ D++ G e++* h! r-- !y-- UF++ ------ END GEEK CODE BLOCK ------
I've recently aquired an old SyQuest SyJet1se 1.5 G external drive with no cartridge. I suspect the drive might work. Does anyone in the city sell these cartridges anymore, or is this drive dumpster filling?
I sell them. I have about 9 new cartridges left and quite a lot of used ones. I also have new and used SyJet drives (SCSI external only, I think). One problem with testing a drive: A defective drive will typically immediately destroy the cartridges it is tested with. I've lost quite a few cartridges that way. Please feel free to phone me. Hartmut Sager Evergreen Computer Services Tel. +1-204-339-8331 E-mail address: hwsager@gatewest.net (primary) or hwsager@mts.net (secondary)
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