Jim after me:

>>Anyway, our 3000 sales contact at the HP Federal Business
>>Center in MD was telling me we should order the DLT's under
>>the more expensive HP 3000 part number...  but I tracked down
>>an HP DLT tech support person and he told me there was no
>>technical difference between the two "versions" of DLT4000.
>>.... took his word for it;  saved the $1800 or whatever it was...

> Shame on you for ripping HP off!  They deserved that extra
> $1800 or so for, uh, well, gee, I can't really think of any
> reason you should just give them $1800, can you?

I can live with the guilt....

> But aren't you in violation of some usage agreement now? :-)

I never signed anything when I bought those two DLT4000's,
that said I not going to hook them up to an HP 3000...  never
signed anything at all, for that matter:  Gave HP the $$;  UPS
delivered the drives;  there is no "license agreement" required
to run DLT's;  end of story.....    :-)

....  I guess I'll find out if I have anything to regret when I try and
add them to our 3000 hardware support contract at the end of
FY99, after the warrantee period is over....    :-0

Ken Sletten