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  3. December 2005

Re: Installing a 3490-F01 on a model 170

I have to agree about obsolete tape drives.  Granted you may occasionally 
run into a used drive rarely used by a company that went broke and it set 
in receivership for years, or upgraded and instead of trading it in, left 
it on a shelf.  Just like some people occasionally find a Chevy for $500 
in the want ads and discover it's a 66 Corvette that's been on blocks for 
40 years.   However a bulk of the time it's someone like me who got fed up 
with the service man coming in every other week to work on the tape drive 
and decided to upgrade to the latest IBM model.  Maintenance contract or 
not, it's still downtime if the dang drive isn't working.

Rob Berendt

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