3rd-party drives: summary of responses

[Christopher Gunn]

A few weeks ago I requested advice on sources for third-party SGI
SCSI drives.  I more-or-less forgot about posting a summary
(mostly because whether we get the dough to buy a bunch depends
not only on grant agency but on Graham-Rudman...) but recently got
a mail request for my results.  Which follow, below.

Note that none of responses say, "I bought these drives at
ridiculously low prices, plugged them in and they woke up
instantly," which is kind of what I'd hoped for.  Oh well.

***REPLY 1:

From:	IN%"corkum at csri.toronto.edu"  "Brent Thomas Corkum"  6-SEP-1990 12:47:41.23

Try Falcon Systems Inc., 5816 Rseville Road, Sacramento CA., talk
to Patsy Zimmerman (916)344 1221, who by the way is the most go get um
sales person I've ever dealt with. I just mentioned that I was looking
to buy a disk and some memory and I get fax quotes and letters daily it
seems. Hope this helps.

Brent
corkum at ecf.toronto.edu

***REPLY 2:

From:	IN%"pdi!koko!shoshana at SGI.COM"  6-SEP-1990 19:25:15.13

  Well, I found one incredibly inexpensive source for the 760-Mb SCSI
  disks, but our 1st one just arrived today so I can't guarantee that
  they work... No reason they shouldn't, though.

  The vendor is Computer Systems Technology, ph (714)-458-8567. I talked
  to a salesperson named Alan Mason. 
  They're selling the disks for around $2,395., which is close to the 
  price we were paying for just the disk (we would then have to buy the
  chassis and power supply and do some assembly) - of course, we don't
  have an academic discount so your price may be even lower. 

  Good luck!

  shoshana abrass
  pdi!shoshana at sgi.com

***REPLY 3:

From:	IN%"merritt at iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov"  "John H Merritt"  7-SEP-1990 08:35:18.38

For disks and 8mm systems.

	Hybrid Computer Systems, Inc.
	6753 Old Waterloo Rd.
	Suite 323
	Baltimore, Md. 21227
	(301) 799-0500 / John Hunt.

	Introl Corporation
	2675 Patton Road
	St. Paul, Minnesota 55113
	(612) 631-7600 / Bruce J. Brunette

8mm only.

	Exabyte Corporation
	(215) 355-5888 / Kris Kane
	

Disk only:
SCSI came from 
	ARROW/KIERRULFF Electronics
	ATTN: Bruce
	8300 Guilford Rd.
	Columbia, md 21046  (301) 995-6002

and were about $2,700.00 each for 766 Mbytes.

ESDI came from
	Mid-Atlantic Data Systems, Inc.
	ATTN: Paul Hoy
	847-A Quince Orchard Blvd.
	Gaithersburg, Md 20878 (301) 590-0666


Disk and memory:
	Impediment Inc.
	333 Duxbury, Ma 02332
	(617) 837-8877
	Attn: Alex.

-- 
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John H. Merritt                   #  Yesterday I knew nothing,
Applied Research Corporation      #  Today I know that.
merritt at iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov     #

***REPLY 4:

From: mmcneill at kandinsky.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Michael Mcneill -Visualization)
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 90 19:01:50 GMT
Reply-To: mmcneill at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Sender: news at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News)

Here's a list of SCSI disk vendors that may be helpful.

Note: This list is provided purely as a service.  I don't have affiliations 
with any of these companies.

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Apunix Computer Services	(619) 484-0074		Simon Meth
American Computers & Engineers	(213) 820-8998		
Andataco Computer Perhipherals	(800) 334-9191		Peter Bille
Artecon				(619) 931-5500 ext 135	Stacey A. Wildenberg
Arkay Engineering Sales		(216) 836-8497  	Richard Kuhar
Cita Technologies		(216) 524-8735		David Thompson
Computer Upgrade Corporation	(714) 630-3457		Robert J Allen
Cranel				(800) 288-3475		James M. Huffman
Danford Corporation		(213) 514-9334		Scott M. Johnson
Delta Microsystems, Inc.	(415) 449-6881		
General Microsystems Inc. 	(206) 644-2233		Earl W. Overstreet
Helios Systems			(408) 432-0292
Interscience Computer Corp.	(818) 707-2000		Miran Apikian
Mar-Con Associates Inc.		(708) 675-6450		Sue Hyosaka
MDB Systems, Inc.		(714) 998-6900		
National Peripherals		(312) 325-4151		Ken Been
North Central Peripherals	(612) 881-2302		Ken Nickell
Parity Systems			(408) 378-1000
Solflower Computer Inc		(408) 452-5780		Janet Doan
Unison Information Systems	(508) 898-0072

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Christopher Gunn	Molecular Graphics & Modeling Lab
SPAN--KUPHSX::GUNN	Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Malott Hall
913-864-4428 or -4495	University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS  66045