On Fri, 3 Feb 1995, Richard Gambrell wrote:
> Is it really worth it to upgrade instead of replace them? We have 2 7880s
> that are 7 years old. We had used them for daily backups on our series 70,
> but stopped that 2 years ago when up moved up to a 967 and now use DAT for
> backups. I had been assuming that we would be better served by buying a
> new 7980 with SCSI (we only need 1 now). Anyone care to comment?
 
Richard,
 
When I migrated to the 967 (also from the 70 platform), I purchased a 7980
from HP remarketing and had them add the SCSI interface.  It works very
well.  I've only had one tape get tangled in the autoloader.
 
We used two 7978As on our 70s so our positive performance impressions
may be a little biased.
 
Regards,
 
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