I can attest these carts are nearly impossible to find. I hunted for eons to
find a 5mb for my SQ306rd. Last month I found a 'QPAK' and was all excited but
it turned out to be a 10MB SQ200 instead. Which is fine, because right after
that I found a 2 unit Tecmar drive that had both a 5mb and 10mb Syquest drive
in it and both appear to have one cartridge each. So now I have two kicks at
the can for the 10mb drive and one for the 5mb.But yeah.. super hard to find.
I think part of it is the early carts are not well labeled and look like random
junk to most people.BradSent from my Galaxy
-------- Original message --------From: Wayne S via cctalk
<[email protected]> Date: 2025-07-20 1:45 p.m. (GMT-08:00) To: "General
Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <[email protected]> Cc: Travis
Pierce <[email protected]>, Wayne S <[email protected]> Subject:
[cctalk] Re: SyQuest disk anyone? Easier to get the serial zip drive to work.
There’s still carts available for those.Sent from my iPhone> On Jul 20, 2025,
at 13:15, Peter Ekstrom via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote:> > I did
find that out a little while ago. But the disks do seem as rare as> hen's teeth
for sure!> I came across an SQ319RD drive for cheap a little while back and
was> thinking of trying to get it to work with one of my PDP-11s, but without
a> disk it is just a paper weight.> Figured I'd ask here too but you just
confirmed I'm going to have to be> very patient. I'd like to have a few disks
but right now I just need one so> I can verify the drive works.> > -Peter> >>
On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM Travis Pierce <[email protected]>>>
wrote:>> >> I've been looking for these removable drive cartridges for years
with no>> luck. Sysgen called these DuraPak's and SyQuest called them
Q-PAK's. I'm>> not sure why they had different names.>> >> On Sun, Jul 20,
2025 at 9:25 AM Peter Ekstrom via cctalk <>> [email protected]> wrote:>>
>>> I am looking for a 15MB SQ300 disk cartridge in working condition.>>>
Anyone have one they wouldn't mind parting with?>>> >>> - Peter>>> >>
